Daisy Jones and the Six

Amazon's new series, Daisy Jones & the Six, uses Fleetwood Mac as unofficial inspiration for its take on a rock band's success in the '70s.

[1973](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/men-of-the-year/article/andrew-scott-style), while on tour, Weston had an affair with Jenny Boyd, [Fleetwood](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/mick-fleetwood-car-collection)'s wife, who he then divorced. [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/old-music-comeback-2022)'s decades-long dabble with implosion, but a propensity for drama is part of the band's roots. [70s](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/john-travolta-1970s-style) rock band's success torn apart by intra-group turmoil after watching [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/fleetwood-mac-gig-o2-arena-review) perform and absorbing their headline-grabbing liasons. [70s](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/gallery/best-corduroy-trousers) when love was free and social media didn't exist to show it all in real-time. “[It was] the most expensive affair I’ve ever had in my life,” Weston [said](https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/295491/Obituary-Bob-Weston-Lead-guitarist-with-Fleetwood-Mac-November-1-1947-January-3-201) later. By the time ’ [70s](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/most-stylish-men-of-the-1970s) rolled around, the group had found a footing with the addition of McVie's wife, keyboardist [Christine McVie](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/christine-mcvie-fleetwood-mac-songs), and guitarist Bob Weston. The group was formed in the late ‘60s by Peter Green, with a revolving door of [Mick Fleetwood](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/harry-style-pleasing-mick-fleetwood) and John McVie at various points. [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/fleetwood-mac-tusk)'s hippy heyday. But it was, and here are some of the foundational Fleetwood Mac dramas that influence [Daisy Jones & The Six](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/daisy-jones-and-the-six-fleetwood-mac). Weston was fired from the band which set it up for the group's seminal Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham era. This era of rock royalty is a prime breeding ground for TV and film adaptations, and no group created more drama on and off stage, with equally terrible and incredible results, than [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/fleetwood-mac-songs). The tortured love affairs, break-ups and, as a result, some of the best songs ever created, offer great inspiration for a series, perhaps because most of it feels too spectacular to actually be real.

Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), the co-leads, don't meet until halfway through the third episode, and it feels as if the story is ...

In the book, Pete Loving is the bassist of the band and the older brother of Eddie. But it’s also one of the most amusing changes because it means there are only five members in the Six (unless you count Camila). Easily the biggest and best change in the TV adaptation is the expansion of Simone Jackson (Nabiyah Be), the Donna Summer–esque disco pioneer who served mostly as a friend and voice of reason for Daisy in the book. He notably has the fewest lines of any of the Six in the oral history, offering only one update years after leaving the music industry. As in the book, Teddy Price plays an important role as not only the music producer who brings together Daisy Jones and the Six but as a paternal figure to Billy. She’s beautiful and charismatic, and you want to both party with her and watch her work — but, as in the book, the genius Daisy and the flighty, unreliable addict Daisy are a package deal. In that sense, the series’ Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse) is pretty faithful. Performances in movies such as The Lodge and Zola have proven Keough’s ability to go big, but it’s her gift for subtlety that plays a critical role in making Daisy feel like more than just a Stevie Nicks knockoff. But a documentary style is a natural fit for a novel written as an oral history, and the later episodes come alive especially by structuring their stories around events or periods of time: a daylong brainstorming session in which Daisy and Billy’s creative partnership really takes off, for example, or a trip to the Greek island of Hydra in which none of the Six appear. At one point in the book, while considering the band’s hit album (and Rumours stand-in) Aurora, keyboardist Karen Sirko speculates, “Was the album our best one because Billy was forced to let us in on the composing and arranging from the outset? But as with any adaptation, certain details don’t make the cut, and characters are inevitably altered in significant or minor ways, for good or ill. The biggest hurdle in adapting a novel like Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & the Six is reproducing the format: a transcribed oral history of a fictional rock band loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac, told by interviewees speaking 40 years after their final performance.

The new Prime Video series about an iconic 1970s band is inspired by Fleetwood Mac. It was filmed in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Greece.

The series isn’t the only project to recently tap New Orleans as a stand-in for Chicago, as the new movie Hydra, which is about a four-hour ferry ride from Athens, is no stranger to the music scene. New Orleans and other locations across Louisiana, including Hammond and Baton Rouge, were selected to portray the rest of the United States. Another venue makeover took place at Whisky a Go Go, as well as neighboring shops on the strip. The series uses various filming locations to bring the fictional band’s home base, tour stops, and vacation destinations to life. The production transformed landmarks on the Sunset Strip, taking them back to their former 1970s flair, according to

Riley Keough and Sam Claflin's dueling frontman antics on “Daisy Jones & the Six” has sparked several audience theories about what real-life, classic rock ...

I saw it with my own eyes!” [Buckingham and Springsteen](https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/daisy-jones-and-the-six-riley-keough-sam-claflin-band-music-1235537577/) were sources of inspiration for co-star Claflin. As did Stevie Nicks’ “warm and intimate, but cryptic” rendition of “Landslide” alongside, former bandmate, and lover, Lindsey Buckingham, which she remembers first seeing as a young teenager. And the things that were going on between Christine McVie and John McVie were really fascinating, and they show in the music. [Taylor Jenkins Reid](https://variety.com/t/taylor-jenkins-reid/), whose book introduced the world to Daisy Jones, has previously detailed several sources of inspiration in her writing including rock, disco and the whole Laurel Canyon scene. “I started with the germ of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac,” [the author said in a previous interview hosted by her publisher.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfy6hqKHg6U) But as she researched and to pull creative inspiration from a slew of ‘70s stars, — crediting Bruce Springsteen, The Eagles, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty and Crosby, Stills and Nash alongside Fleetwood Mac. Riley Keough and Sam Claflin’s dueling frontman antics on “Daisy Jones & the Six” has sparked several audience theories about what real-life, classic rock figures from the ’70s actually inspired these characters.

A woman with long hair and holding a tambourine and a man playing a guitar sing. Riley Keough, left, and Sam Claflin in “Daisy Jones & the Six.” (Lacey ...

“But because of COVID, we couldn’t start our production on time, and the three-week band camp turned into 18 months. “That meant putting the actors through a rigorous ‘band camp,’ run by [music supervisor] Frankie [Pine] and supervised by [music consultant] Tony [Berg], where for hours every day they would practice their instruments, learn Blake [Mills’] brand-new songs, work on their stage presence or otherwise just shoot the s— like real bandmates do. … Daisy Jones and The Six are real. A stunning, nostalgic, timeless album that captures the drama, pathos, and yearning of the band’s zenith and nadir all in one,” Reid shared in a statement. Neither actor had sung professionally before, and Keough recently revealed she might have actually stretched the truth when auditioning for the role. The series is an adaption of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times bestselling novel that broke #BookTok and caught the attention of series co-producer Reese Witherspoon.

Actors singing and pretending to be rock stars is terrible, even when it's Riley Keough and Sam Claflin. But watching them do it for 10 hours is another ...

is presented as a mockumentary (this makes sense: the book is written like an oral history) and my main thing with this is: mockumentary is a great structure for comedy, but never quite works when the story plays it straight. I am going to be moaning about this all year, because it keeps happening in 2023: this does not need to be 10 hours long. You don’t need too much of a story when the drummer has a moustache and likes to stick his head out of the battered-up van they all pooled their savings to buy. Obviously, Daisy Jones & the Six (which is based on a book that simply asks the question: “What if The songs are the whole point, so they have to be in there. I am a natural-born hater and as such I’ve always found the performance of songs woven into works of fiction to be quite embarrassing.

The show follows an iconic (fictionalized) 1970s rock group, led by Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), and their rise and fall. The book ...

Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. eastern time): On Prime Video, episodes typically drop at midnight pacific time (3:00 a.m.

'Daisy Jones & The Six' is about a fictional rock band and stars Riley Keough as the lead singer. Here's whether or not she is really singing in the show.

I was like, I have to do it. I went to a vocal coach and I was like, they need me to belt." "I was like, I can’t do it, and when I can’t do something it lights a fire in me to be able to do it. "I didn’t even know how one gets to be able to sing loud. Although getting to that point was a process. I don't really remember what happened," Keough said during a recent press event for the series.

'Daisy Jones & the Six' stars Riley Keough and Sam Claflin and the show's music team explain how they brought the fictional '70s band to life.

“It wasn’t something that had to sound like a lost record of that moment,” he says. Mumford first heard about “Daisy Jones & the Six” from Mills nearly four years ago, and was happy to support his friend on this “epic quest” that he knew had been quite challenging. I remember it feeling extremely collaborative, open-hearted and with the free spirit that I think ends up being conveyed in the song.” “And to Riley and Sam’s credit, they stepped up.” “In all honesty, one of the best things to ever happen to this production was the fact that we had a delay,” Claflin says. “Writing this slightly embattled dialogue between these two characters was just a really fun exercise,” Mumford says. I think she was a combination of many women and men, actually.” “In that moment, the pressure also got lifted a bit. So we just kind of met and then were put face-to-face and they were like, ‘Sing at each other!'” “[Bands] spend so much time together that they know what each person’s going to do,” Pine says. “Our initial concern when Sam and Riley were cast was that it would be putting a lot of pressure on two people who had never sung professionally to be responsible for singing 25 songs. Not to worry: “Daisy Jones,” which is backed by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, recruited a stellar music team to bring the band to life.

Elvis' granddaughter Riley Keough takes center stage as a rock star in Prime Video's "Daisy Jones & the Six."

[Lisa Marie died at age 54](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/01/13/lisa-marie-presley-elvis-daughter-dead/11043024002/) on Jan. [ Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/daisy-jones-riley-keough-singing-584e74ed739322018aa9a6f557f2880f) that singing publicly for the first time in "Daisy Jones" did not come naturally, despite her pedigree. [Priscilla Presley, 77, filed legal papers](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/01/30/priscilla-presley-disputes-trust-daughter-lisa-marie-presley/11151757002/) challenging Lisa Marie's will. For one, I've never had pretend sex with my husband," she said, adding that the two "were just giggling the whole time." Keough explained that the show's producers "thought it would be so funny" if her character's one-night-stand was played by her actual husband. According to [court documents](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/01/30/priscilla-presley-disputes-trust-daughter-lisa-marie-presley/11151757002/), Priscilla disputes the validity of a 2016 living trust amendment that removed her and a former business manager as trustees and replaced them with Lisa Marie's two oldest children, Keough and her brother, Benjamin Keough. She won critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award for her role in the 2016 drama "American Honey." Keough made her film debut at age 20 co-starring with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in the 2010 musical biopic "The Runaways." [Benjamin Keough died](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/07/12/benjamin-keough-dies-lisa-marie-presley-elvis-grandson/5425381002/) at age 27 in 2020, leaving Riley as the sole trustee. "I couldn't have imagined anyone being able to pull off what he did in terms of embodying my grandfather," said Keough. She never met her famous grandfather, who died at age 42 in 1977, when Lisa Marie was only 9. Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of rocker dad Elvis and Priscilla Presley, who divorced in 1973.

"Billy, you wrote a good song, not a great one." Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne and Camila Morrone as Camila in Daisy Jones and The Six ...

It is only after Teddy is honest with him about the record label not approving of "Honeycomb" that Billy gives in and records Daisy's version. Yet, when Simone asks Daisy about her time in the studio, Daisy replied that it was probably the best day of her life. This encourages the producer to make the bold move of putting Daisy and Billy in the studio together. That way, he could try to convince the record label that the song could still be a hit. Billy becomes furious when he finds out that Daisy changed the lyrics to his song, as well as its meaning. As a result, Billy tells the other band members that he would be quitting the band to dedicate himself entirely to his family. She tells him how she wants to make a record that people will play over and over again til it breaks, and after that Daisy wants to make another one. She confronts him saying that the least he could do is thank her for the song's success. Instead of acknowledging what he did, her ex-boyfriend pretends that he has nothing to thank her for. [Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin)](https://collider.com/daisy-jones-and-the-six-riley-keough-sam-claflin-interview/) meet for the first time in a chaotic studio session. When Simone and Bernie leave the party together, Daisy encounters her ex-boyfriend, the one who appropriated The writers decided to make the first two episodes of [Daisy Jones and The Six](https://collider.com/daisy-jones-and-the-six-review/) a slow burn, focusing primarily on both main characters' backstories.

The 10-episode series tells the tale of a 1970s rock band and the connection between its lead singers, Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), ...

It definitely has a realistic feel, so many viewers are going to wonder if Daisy Jones & The Six is based on a true story or inspired by a real band. The album, She explained, "When I decided I wanted to write a book about rock 'n' roll, I kept coming back to that moment when Lindsey watched Stevie sing 'Landslide.' How it looked so much like two people in love. The author recalled watching a Fleetwood Mac concert on MTV in the 1990s and being taken by the way Nicks and Buckingham looked at each other while singing their hit song "Landslide." I wanted to write a story about that, about how the lines between real life and performance can get blurred, about how singing about old wounds might keep them fresh." In an essay written for the

Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Daisy Jones & the Six is a smash hit. And now, the story of the fictional band (based loosely on Rumors-era Fleetwood Mac) is ...

Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/emburack)and If you aren't already a Prime member, you [can sign up for a 30 day free trial](https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime?ref_=nav_cs_primelink_nonmember), and after, it's $14.99/month. [Daisy Jones & the Six](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524798649) is a smash hit. The cast is led by Riley Keough as Daisy Jones and Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne. In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world.

Taylor Jenkins Reid's characters come to life in the adaptation of her book. Here, a guide to the characters in the show—plus the character that was written ...

Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/emburack)and Warren Rojas is the Six's drummer (in the book, he's called Warren Rhodes). [currently touring](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=74968X1525087&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fsuki-waterhouse-tickets%2Fartist%2F2872861) in support of her own music. Rod Reyes is Daisy Jones and the Six's tour manager. She's Daisy's closest (and only) friend, and she finds herself at the forefront of the 1970s underground disco scene. Simone quote from the novel: "But at some point, you have to recognize that you have no control over anybody and you have to step back and be ready to catch them when they fall and that’s all you can do. Billy is played by Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games, Peaky Blinders, Enola Homes). Graham Dunne is the lead guitarist for the Six, and Billy Dunne's younger brother. Daisy Jones is the co-lead singer of Daisy Jones & the Six. "The band’s charismatic frontman whose increasingly complicated feelings for bandmate and songwriting partner Daisy threaten to upend his life." "I have many conversations with writers about potentially adapting things, or working together, and you never know if what you love about your book is the same thing that someone else loves.

Here's a look at the biggest differences between the 'Daisy Jones & The Six' show and the original book by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

The show plays up the trio’s increasingly tense and chemistry-filled relationship as Billy and Daisy’s feelings for each other grow more apparent and Camila in turn becomes more aware of it. In the novel, Chuck is forced to leave the band after being drafted into the military and later dies in Cambodia less than six months after he was deployed. Unlike the book, though, she gets a job as a waitress as she tries to work on writing music, and it feels as if the series holds back on the nepo baby aspect that was key to understanding Daisy’s life. While the show does make large adjustments to the music, it brings the band’s Fleetwood Mac-esque sound to life in the most realistic way. In the show, Chuck willingly chooses to leave the band after secretly applying and getting accepted to college to study dentistry. The most apparent change is the combination of brothers Eddie and Pete Loving, who were, respectively, the band’s lead guitarist and bassist. In the book, Karen’s nickname is Karen Karen but her full name in the show is Karen Sirko. The show gives us a more raw and well-rounded look at the dynamics between the band members and the impacts of the characters’ behavior as they actually interact with one another. The book’s oral history format serves as the perfect gateway to a longform adaptation, and the series doesn’t stray too far away from that. Having been announced over four years ago by Amazon Studios and delayed several times due to the pandemic, the adaptation has been a long time in the making, causing expectations to skyrocket in the meantime. When she becomes the co-lead singer of The Six, a band fronted by the charming but troubled Billy Dunne ( [Sam Claflin](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a43147020/sam-claflin-daisy-jones-and-the-six-interview/)), the years that follow are a rollercoaster ride full of intense emotions and increasingly fraught dynamics. FROM THE moment it hit bookshelves in 2019, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & the Six has been dominating conversations, topping bestsellers lists, and gaining a massive fanbase.

Riley Keough and Sam Clafin lead the series, which premiered on Prime on March 3. Sam Claflin and Riley Keough as Billy Dunne and Daisy Jones in Daisy Jones and ...

With seven more episodes to go the fate of the series is yet to be determined completely. However, at the height of their success, the band called it quits. It tells the tale of a fictional 70s band from their rise in the LA music scene with their debut album “Aurora” to becoming one of the most famous bands in the world.

Riley Keough stars in the Amazon Prime Video show 'Daisy Jones and the Six.' The book's author Taylor Jenkins Reid says that the characters are inspired by ...

She's a graduate of the University of Florida's School of Journalism, with a specialty in magazines and mass communication. The cast even created and sang [an entirely original soundtrack](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS9Y71BP) to match. That said, Taylor has previously clarified that the events that unfolded in the book and show aren't based on a true story. It's enough for viewers to wonder who Daisy Jones and the Six is based on. Daisy's path later intertwines with Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin)'s band The Six, which cues whirlwind love affairs, heartache and ultimate rise and fall of the group. Actress [Riley Keough](https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a43126987/daisy-jones-and-the-six-riley-keough-lisa-marie-presley/) stands at the forefront and stars as Daisy Jones, a Penny Lane-type trailblazing her way (barefoot, of course) into the music scene.

As soap operas set against the world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll go, "Daisy Jones & the Six" is a by-no-means groundbreaking but still-enjoyable account ...

“Daisy Jones & the Six” doesn’t quite qualify as a dream come true, but it does turn its fictional story into a four-star soap, wistfully capturing this musical era broadly and the sometimes-fleeting nature of stardom. But the show mostly works by charting its own course, namechecking cultural artifacts of its era (Barry Manilow and “Rollerball” among them) while more narrowly focusing on the band, with all the festering resentments and simmering attractions that go with the creative process. [“A Star is Born”](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/entertainment/a-star-is-born-review/index.html) to Tom Hanks’ ode to one-hit wonders “That Thing You Do.” Credit that in part to the cast, starting with [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/entertainment/stevie-nicks-christine-mcvie-friendship-cec/index.html) as a source of inspiration. Inevitably, “Daisy Jones” feels derivative of any number of rock ‘n’ roll stories, and the egos and excess that go with them, from “Almost Famous” to the last two versions of