United Kingdom, Sept. 24 -- Mark Ronson felt "embarrassed" by his family's wealth when he was growing up as a rich kid in New York.

The 50-year-old music producer was born in London but moved to the Big Apple at the age of eight after his parents divorced and his mother Ann married Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones - but Ronson admits he spent years "trying to hide" his privileged background when he was trying to break into the music industry.

He told The Independent newspaper: "I spent my teens and early twenties, when I was coming up in this [music] scene, a little bit embarrassed, or trying to hide the fact that I came from money.

"I was going into this downtown hip-hop scene where people did not come from the background that I did. I ...