Alexa, play Rumours by Fleetwood Mac … adopted via Aurora via Daisy Jones & the Six.
Years before Daisy Jones & the Six became a series for Amazon, writer Taylor Jenkins Reid unfolded about the inspiration at the back of her liked characters, giving credit score to former Fleetwood Mac band participants Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
In a post for production company Hello Sunshine, Reid recalled seeing a efficiency of “Landslide” when Fleetwood Mac: The Dance (a TV particular) re-aired on MTV when she was 13 years previous.
“As the tune used to be coming to an end, Stevie and Lindsey moved nearer to one some other, smiling tenderly, perhaps even somewhat bit wistfully. Lindsey stopped strumming for a moment and Stevie let it fly as he watched from the sideline. And for one split 2d — really, a slice of a moment — Lindsey put his fist underneath his chin and checked out Stevie as if she was a miracle,” Reid wrote. “And I assumed, ‘Oh, they’re in love with each and every different.’ I didn't assume it in any kind of revelatory method. It didn’t even appear to be that massive of a realization. It simply seemed obtrusive.”
When Reid learned that the two musicians hadn’t been in a relationship for decades at the time of the performance, she was shocked. Years later, she watched the complete Fleetwood Mac: The Dance TV special on YouTube and sought a better figuring out of the difficult dynamic between Nicks and Buckingham.
“When I determined I sought after to write a ebook about rock ‘n’ roll, I kept coming back to that second when Lindsey watched Stevie sing ‘Landslide.’ How it seemed so much like two people in love. And but, we’ll by no means truly know what lived between them,” she defined about her 2019 novel. “I wanted to write a tale about that, about how the strains between genuine existence and performance can get blurred, about how making a song about old wounds would possibly keep them recent.”
Nicks and Buckingham inspired Reid to create Daisy Jones (played by means of Riley Keough in the TV adaption) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin). Those aren’t the handiest two characters that may be tied to the real-life band, then again. Suki Waterhouse, who performs keyboardist Karen Sirko on the series, named past due Fleetwood Mac keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie as inspiration.
“Karen Sirko is English onscreen so clearly I checked out Christine. An completely mythical lady. I was utterly enamored with her,” Waterhouse informed NME in March 2023.
Graham Dunne’s portrayer, Will Harrison, additionally pulled from Buckingham. “Graham is Billy’s little brother. He’s roughly the peacemaker in the crew,” Harrison defined to the outlet. “Lindsey Buckingham’s [inspiration] can’t be overlooked. There was once a lot of fingerpicking stuff for me to play on this display and numerous that was impressed by him.”
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Daisy Jones & the Six starts streaming on Amazon Friday, March 3.
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