Daisy Jones and the Six

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Daisy Jones & The Six – how to watch the highly anticipated music ... (digitalspy.com)

How to watch and stream Daisy Jones & The Six full episodes online via Amazon Prime Video, plus trailer, cast, release date and episode guide.

- Episode 4 - March 10, 2023 - Episode 3 - March 3, 2023 - Episode 2 - March 3, 2023 - Episode 1 - March 3, 2023 Here is the schedule of when Daisy Jones & The Six new episodes will drop on Prime Video: Fronted by two charismatic lead singers in Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), the series will document their complicated musical and personal relationship as they contend with being catapulted from obscurity to fame.

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Is Daisy Jones & The Six based on a true story? (digitalspy.com)

Fleetwood Mac was made up of Lindsey Buckingham (lead guitarist and male vocalist), Stevie Nicks (female vocalist – and sometimes tambourine), Mick Fleetwood ( ...

"And so Lindsey, you and I have to sew this relationship back up. We need to put our problems behind us.'" "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." Although they also add Graham Dunne (lead guitar) to the mix. We have too much to lose here. And I thought, 'Oh, they’re in love with each other.'

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Meet the 'Daisy Jones & The Six' Cast and Characters (The Pioneer Woman)

Get to know the 'Daisy Jones and The Six' cast before the TV show premieres! Stars include Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, and Suki Waterhouse.

In the book, Teddy is both a creative genius and a father figure supporting his musicians. Morrone is an Argentine-American model and actress who made her debut in the film Bukowski. Claflin is known for starring in films that include Me Before You, Adrift, and Snow White and the Huntsman. Billy is married to Camila, but as the attractive lead singer of a bad, he struggles with his vices. On the drums, we have Sebastian Chacon as Warren Rojas! Camila Morrone will play Camila Dunne, the girlfriend/wife of lead singer Billy. Since then, she has received acclaim for her roles in The Girlfriend Experience, American Honey, Zola, and more. Riley Keough takes the title role as entrancing lead singer Daisy Jones. You'll hear plenty of ['70s songs](https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/news-entertainment/g32065850/best-70s-songs/) playing in the soundtrack, along with tons of musical originals. So, it's just about time to meet the band. [Daisy Jones & The Six](https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/news-entertainment/a43007708/daisy-jones-and-the-six-season-one-release-date-cast/) is finally hitting our screens. The show is anticipated to be [Amazon Prime's](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8NRNTSM) first big streaming hit of the year, a lustrous and nostalgic music drama about the rise and fall of a 1970s band (kind of similar to Fleetwood Mac).

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Daisy Jones & the Six review – not even Elvis's grandkid can save ... (The Guardian)

The stars sizzle with chemistry, the band shenanigans are fun and everyone and everything in it looks gorgeous – but it all just feels too slick and ...

When he gets out, their manager, Teddy Price (Tom Wright), puts them with his new discovery, Daisy Jones (Riley Keough), a beautiful, charismatic singer-songwriter with a slightly effortfully fiery spirit and anachronistic feminist awareness (present in the book but bumped up here). Four childhood friends in Pittsburgh, including brothers Billy (Sam Claflin) and Graham Dunne (Will Harrison), form a band in the hope of escaping their home town. They have kept the style and glamour – everyone and everything in it looks ceaselessly gorgeous – but failed to repeat Jenkins Reid’s great feat, which was to make you care about this group of talented, fortunate people who couldn’t keep themselves together enough to succeed for long, and who damaged an awful lot of people in the fallout.

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Daisy Jones & The Six - how does it compare to the book? (Radio Times)

Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 smash hit novel, depicts the rise and fall of a fictional 1970s rock band. The story, which is loosely ...

For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). [terms and conditions](https://www.immediate.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/) and [privacy policy](https://policies.immediate.co.uk/privacy/). In the source material, Daisy travels to Thailand, where Simone comes to stay with her and her husband Nicky, but the location has moved to Greece in the show, with the storyline extended to fill the majority of the episode, in turn fleshing out that moment. The nature of the group's meeting with prominent figures Rod Reyes (Timothy Olyphant) and Teddy Price (Tom Wright) differs somewhat, with it much more fleeting in the show. By spending significant time and care on building the backdrop to The Six, you really get a sense of their standing in the musical landscape of that era. [Daisy Jones & The Six](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/daisy-jones-and-the-six-review/) brings Read's much-loved novel to the screen in style, capturing the '70s rock 'n' roll scene in all its glory, warts and all, as it charts The Six at their highest and lowest points. It has since been turned into a drama, with Riley Keough cast as Daisy Jones and Sam Claflin in the role of The Six's guitarist and singer Billy Dunne. While Daisy's unhappy childhood is depicted in the show, it takes on a larger role in the book. The most obvious difference is the framing of the narrative. Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 smash hit novel, depicts the rise and fall of a fictional 1970s rock band. In the novel, there's more focus on her friendship with Daisy, particularly when she falls on hard times. In the book, the majority of The Six’s story is told through interviews that take place in 2012, with the group reflecting on events.

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'Daisy Jones & the Six' turns a fictional band into a four-star soap ... (CNN)

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

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Daisy Jones & The Six Series-Premiere Recap: The Early Years (Vulture)

Like all good band histories, Daisy Jones & The Six starts at the beginning: Deadbeat parents, band practice, and cruising down the Sunset Strip.

After a year of rehearsals and bigger and better shows, a manager tells the Dunne Brothers they need to go to L.A., and Camila hops in the van, despite her parents’ clear objections to Billy, his rock-star dreams, and probably also the length of his hair. And lastly, there’s Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse), the English keyboardist the band meets at a gig. The episode ends with the band arriving on the Sunset Strip, staring up at the lights like kids on a class trip, just as Daisy Jones walks down the same stretch of pavement like she owns the place. Figuring out how good she was at belting out a sad song was a reaction to her mother slighting the lyrics she read in her diary. The show remakes Camila into an aspiring photographer, which is a nice excuse for how much band footage they have at their disposal for the documentary. Other real-life flashbacks feel more honest, like the meet-cute between Billy and Camila (a magnetic Camila Morrone) at a Pittsburgh fluff-and-fold. This is the kind of self-mythologizing that works when people are just sitting around and talking about themselves. Daisy is attracted to the refuge of the music, but she’ll stay for whatever substance is on offer, which leaves her vulnerable to the full-grown men who prey on her sexually. Anyway, as this is not a column about the series’s fidelity to the novel, I’ll retire the subject (for now) with a piece of advice. An epilogue to the novel includes the lyrics to some of the fake band’s most intimate and influential fake songs. When the band gives these interviews circa 1997, he seems the tensest in front of the camera and the most skeptical that the other band members — namely, Daisy — are volunteering for this turbulent trip down memory lane. About a year after the band starts rehearsing together, the Dunne Brothers are already booking local gigs — proms, graduations, and even a wedding where the brothers Dunne run into their deadbeat dad, who doesn’t bother to say hi or hide himself away in embarrassment.

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Daisy Jones & the Six: Everyone looks perpetually glamorous, but ... (The Irish Times)

The TV drama starring Elvis's grandchild Riley Keough is at its best when laying bare the misogyny of the music industry.

The problem with Daisy Jones & The Six is that you never believe in its ersatz version of 1970s rock. When she tells him she wants to be the voice, not the muse, he looks at it as if she is crazy. It’s the late 1990s and we’re looking back to the 1970s. We’re just making up for the last 20 goddamn years when women suffered in silence’](/health/2023/02/18/theres-too-much-talk-about-menopause-were-just-making-up-for-the-last-20-goddamn-years-when-women-suffered-in-silence/) [I Am Not an Alcoholic: ‘Will you regret taking this drink?’ Yes. ‘Will it make you feel better?’ Yes](/health/your-wellness/2023/02/21/i-am-not-an-alcoholic-will-you-regret-taking-this-drink-yes-will-it-make-you-feel-better-yes/) Daisy Jones is a poor little rich girl who dreams of being a blues singer and who, barely in her teens, sneaks into the Whiskey A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip to see The Byrds play Goin’ Back.

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Who Were the Real Life Daisy Jones & The Six? (Den of Geek)

Daisy Jones captures the voice of Stevie Nicks, but The Six don't quite match the makeup of Fleetwood Mac.

As much of Daisy Jones & the Six is told in flashback, we suspect the singer has a much longer shelf life than the rest of the band. Daisy Jones & the Six never get to do a follow-up album. The backstage life of Daisy Jones & The Six is more of an allegorical fantasy. It went straight to the top of the Billboard 200 as much on the power of such radio staples as “You Make Loving Fun,” and “Don’t Stop,” as it did from tabloid propulsion. He was singing The Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” at a party, and she joined in on harmonies. Nicks also dated royalty, but it was the new rock monarchy, the reigning princes of Laurel Canyon: The Eagles’ Don Henley, and Joe Walsh, and one of that band’s songwriters, alt-country pioneer J.D. Reid, who also wrote The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising, structures Daisy Jones & the Six as an oral history, taken from interviews with the band and the people around them. The band had steady gigs, often opening for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin before breaking up in 1972. Stephanie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona on May 26, 1948 and was singing duets with her grandfather, country singer Aaron Jess “A.J.” Nicks, Sr., by the time she was four. Which brings us to Daisy Jones & the Six. Christine Perfect, keyboardist and vocalist from the blues band Chicken Shack and twice voted England’s female artist of the year, started as a regular session player with the second album Mr. Her flowing stage outfits are representational of the image, making up for the lack of family support Daisy gets for her music.

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Daisy Jones & the Six movie review (2023) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert)

Ultimately, it's a show that feels small for a band that was reportedly so big.

There’s also an increasing sense that the show wastes its setting and period by staying in the studio or Billy’s house for such long stretches of time. [Almost Famous](/reviews/almost-famous-2000),” of course, but that’s not a criticism in that the show echoes that film’s joyous creative spirit at its best in these first chapters. Ponsoldt and his team give these episodes a buoyancy, and Claflin and Keough really understand the “hungry artist” chapters best of all, making that blend of ambition and anxiety that often coalesces into creative genius. The interviews establish the older versions of these characters and their bandmates as people with skeletons in their closets, and then the show reveals how they got buried. So the bulk of the drama plays out as a flashback, starting with introductions to Daisy Jones ( Adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name, “Daisy Jones & The Six” uses the tempestuous creative and personal dynamics within the band Fleetwood Mac to tell its own story of a ‘70s band that burned out instead of fading away.

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Daisy Jones & The Six release schedule: When is episode 4 out? (Radio Times)

Everything you need to know about the release schedule for Daisy Jones & The Six, including release time and date of future episodes.

Taylor Jenkins Reid's original book [Daisy Jones & The Six is also available now](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daisy-Jones-Six-most-novel/dp/1787462145?tag=radtim0b-21&ascsubtag=radiotimes-1794918). For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). The complete release schedule for Daisy Jones & The Six is as follows: You can watch the trailer for Daisy Jones & The Six here, now. Daisy Jones & The Six trailer Daisy Jones & The Six release schedule But when can viewers expect episode 4 to land? Read on for everything you need to know about the release schedule for Daisy Jones & The Six on [accompanying album](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/daisy-jones-and-the-six-soundtrack-prime-video/) to the series. Daisy Jones & The Six episode 4 release date on Prime Video [Daisy Jones & The Six](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/daisy-jones-the-six-prime-video-release-date/) is certainly the kind of musical drama [you can't help but binge watch](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/daisy-jones-and-the-six-review/), Prime Video is staggering episode releases to every Friday through March. Daisy Jones & The Six release schedule: When is episode 4 out?

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The Fleetwood Mac love saga that inspired 'Daisy Jones and the Six' (The Washington Post)

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were together again onstage, lit up in blue, performing a song that had helped fuel their rise so long ago.

“I’ve known Stevie since I was 16, so I would like to think there’s a better way for us to finish up than we finished up,” he said. [ Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in 2020](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-30/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-solo-concert-film), she called it “a long time coming.” And we were none of us willing to give up the band.” Buckingham and Nicks had each made their way back to Fleetwood Mac following the 1997 special that brought the Rumours-era lineup back together. “And that was when the whole world just ripped us apart.” A brief marriage came in 1983, when, grief-stricken over her best friend’s death, she’d had what she later described as a “crazy” thought: that her friend would want her to become her baby’s stepmother. [once quipped](https://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/articles/archive/SNart014.html) “were about as compatible as a boa constrictor and a rat,” were breaking up. “He was standing there grooving to this searing guitar solo and he needed a guitar player. “And we’re going to end up breaking up and everything we’ve worked for is going to be done and it’s all going to be for nothing. Its flop, after all they had put on the line, inspired the lyrics of “Landslide,” which would become a hit for Fleetwood Mac. But the real-life relationship that gave rise to the book and now the series, which premieres Friday on Prime Video, was just as passionate and tumultuous. [wrote in a piece for Hello Sunshine](https://hello-sunshine.com/post/how-fleetwood-mac-influenced-daisy-jones-the-six/), the production company behind the show.

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How to Watch 'Daisy Jones & the Six' Free Prime Video: Stream Online (Rolling Stone)

Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestseller-turned-series about a Seventies rock band is finally streaming. Here's how you can watch the new show for free.

[Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/Daisy-Jones-Taylor-Jenkins-Reid-ebook/dp/B07DMZ5YR9?linkCode=ll1&tag=rollingston07-20&linkId=4e7538a1936c8687b3fbcc3ef6a05c9d&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&asc_source=web&asc_campaign=web&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Ftv-movies%2Ftv-movie-news%2Fhow-to-watch-daisy-jones-and-the-six-online-free-1234689254%2F) or listen to the [audiobook version](https://www.amazon.com/Daisy-Jones-Six-audiobook/dp/B07K8WGT23?_encoding=UTF8&qid&sr&linkCode=ll1&tag=rollingston07-20&linkId=9631cd097f41a9bb18ce13a98ae883b7&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&asc_source=web&asc_campaign=web&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Ftv-movies%2Ftv-movie-news%2Fhow-to-watch-daisy-jones-and-the-six-online-free-1234689254%2F). [ Buy Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel $9.99](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524798649?tag=rollingston07-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US&asc_source=web&asc_campaign=web&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Ftv-movies%2Ftv-movie-news%2Fhow-to-watch-daisy-jones-and-the-six-online-free-1234689254%2F) And they are better than my wildest dreams.” [ Buy Aurora (Amazon Exclusive Orange Vinyl) $27.98](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS9Y71BP?tag=rollingston07-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US&asc_source=web&asc_campaign=web&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Ftv-movies%2Ftv-movie-news%2Fhow-to-watch-daisy-jones-and-the-six-online-free-1234689254%2F) [Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel](https://www.amazon.com/Daisy-Jones-Taylor-Jenkins-Reid/dp/1524798649?linkCode=ll1&tag=rollingston07-20&linkId=2fa3dbfbceaebb97dea10640605f7532&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&asc_source=web&asc_campaign=web&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Ftv-movies%2Ftv-movie-news%2Fhow-to-watch-daisy-jones-and-the-six-online-free-1234689254%2F) about sex, drugs, and a famous Seventies band’s rise to stardom, [Daisy Jones & the Six](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/daisy-jones-and-the-six-review-prime-video-riley-keough-sam-claflin-fictional-rock-band-1234676625/), rocked bookshelves everywhere. Set to the soundtrack of original music from the Daisy Jones & the Six — this is the story of how an iconic band imploded at the height of its powers.” [Reid previously shared](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/daisy-jones-and-the-six-aurora-album-announcement-1234664686/) following the release of “Regret Me.” “A stunning, nostalgic, timeless album that captures the drama, pathos, and yearning of the band’s zenith and nadir all in one. While the show might tell the story of a fictional band, fans can still buy the series’ soundtrack and the band’s album Aurora on an exclusive orange vinyl. Daisy Jones and The Six are real. [ Buy Daisy Jones and The Six: Season 1](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8NS22S2?tag=rollingston07-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US&asc_source=web&asc_campaign=web&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Ftv-movies%2Ftv-movie-news%2Fhow-to-watch-daisy-jones-and-the-six-online-free-1234689254%2F) The Amazon Studios and Hello Sunshine series includes 10 episodes, with each airing weekly on the streaming service. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth. If you haven’t read the bestselling book yet, Amazon explains that Daisy Jones & the Six, the show, “follows the story of the iconic 1970s band, fronted by two feuding yet charismatic lead singers, Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne.

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'Daisy Jones & the Six' Review: Between Rock and a Soft Place (The New York Times)

The Amazon mini-series about the rise and fall of a 1970s band mixes music, nostalgia, romance and a heavy dose of soap opera.

Simone is at the center of one of the show’s lowest points, an extended sequence in which Daisy flees to Greece and marries a European aristocrat, who appears to be introduced solely so he can push Daisy over the brink of addiction (from which she can be rescued by her fellow well-meaning Americans). But their relationship, as portrayed, is kind of a drag, and both characters are unlikable in ways that are supposed to lend authenticity but mainly just make it hard to care about them. The appearance of a cub reporter for Rolling Stone pays homage to “Almost Famous.”) We’re told in passing that Billy hasn’t seen his father in years; when Dad happens to be at one of the band’s gigs, Billy walks up and almost immediately punches him. It’s big, all right, but most of the fun seems to have been lost in the mix — someone dialed down the romance and escapism and slid up the knob labeled “solemn tear-jerker.” You’re expecting “Rhiannon,” but what comes out of the speakers is more like “MacArthur Park.” Their lack of direct experience with the period might have something to do with the show’s impulses feeling more curatorial and fannish than dramatic.

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How to Watch 'Daisy Jones & the Six' Online (Variety)

'Daisy Jones & the Six' hits Prime Video on Friday, March 3. Here's how to watch the anticipated series online.

The first three episodes of “Daisy Jones & the Six” will arrive on Prime Video on March 3 at 12 a.m. This volatility ultimately leads to the group’s final unraveling, which each of the members — including Graham (Will Harrison), Karen (Suki Waterhouse), Warren (Sebastian Chacon) and Eddie (Josh Whitehouse), as well as Billy’s wife, Camila (Camila Morrone) — retell in their own disparate versions throughout the series. [review of the series. In the show, Riley Keough (“Zola”) stars as the singer and songwriter Daisy Jones, who teams up with the band the Six. Like many of the iconic bands during this time period, their rise to stardom is as much exhilarating as it is tumultuous, mostly due to the intense rivalry between Daisy and the band’s lead singer Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin). Five years later, the 10-episode season is finally here.

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'Daisy Jones & The Six' Review: Story of a Faux Fleetwood Mac (The Wall Street Journal)

Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's hit novel and starring Riley Keough, this Prime Video series focuses on a fictional 1970s rock band that disbanded at the ...

[Student discount promo code: $100 off the GoPro HERO11](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/gopro) Over 10 episodes (or “tracks,” as they’re described), the series is a memory tour framed by interviews with the eponymous, superstar rock band that played a sold-out concert at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1977 and never performed together again. One way to digest the fictional rock saga “Daisy Jones & The Six” is as a spoof—not just of ’70s pop-star pretensions or celebrity excess but of the historical documentary as a genre.

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Review: Riley Keough can sing, but 'Daisy Jones & the Six' is a ... (USA TODAY)

Picture this: A 1970s rock band at the height of its power, with big egos, big romances and big fights brewing beneath the surface of the music.

But her brassy alto has a twang which, combined with lovelorn lyrics and strummy melodies, gives the songs a country flavor that is dissonant with the rock genre the band is trying to emulate. Weber ("The Disaster Artist"), "Daisy" tells the band members' story in 1997 to a documentarian, 20 years after their heyday of No. Meanwhile, keyboardist Karen (Suki Waterhouse) and guitarist Graham (Will Harrison), Billy's brother, have their own rocky relationship, and bassist Eddie (Josh Whitehouse) feels pushed to the background. Billy's band and Daisy's solo act struggle and scrape by, but when a music producer (Tom Wright) puts them together, they become hugely popular, virtually overnight, even as drama bubbles behind the scenes. It is fleeting Fleetwood fan fiction, a far cry from capturing the true essence of the ’70s era. A VH1 "Behind the Music" documentary?

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5 Reasons To Watch <i>Daisy Jones & The Six</i> (hotpress.com)

Fronted by two charismatic lead singers—Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin)—the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a ...

Be is exceptional in her part, and her chemistry with the ice-cool Bernie is electric. The already stellar folk-pop bangers written for the series by the American songwriter made up a fictional album, Aurora - inspired by Rumours. The deep-rooted connection between the entire cast shines through the screen, with the actors essentially learning how to become a real performing band for months during the pandemic. In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. [Suki Waterhouse](https://www.hotpress.com/culture/suki-waterhouse-i-remember-filming-love-rosie-fondly-suddenly-i-was-on-set-with-lily-collins-and-sam-claflin-having-the-time-of-my-life-in-dublin-22907104) as Karen Sirko, Josh Whitehouse as Eddie Roundtree, Sebastian Chacon as Warren Rojas, Nabiyah Be as Simone Jackson, and Tom Wright as Teddy Price, with a special guest appearance by the brilliantly charismatic Timothy Olyphant as tour manager Rod Reyes. Partially inspired by Fleetwood Mac legends [Stevie Nicks](https://www.hotpress.com/stevie-nicks) and Lindsey Buckingham's relationship, the chemistry between romantic leads and the band of actors makes it a show you won't resist bingeing.

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'Daisy Jones & the Six' review: A rock soap opera (Los Angeles Times)

The Amazon Prime Video series is a rock 'n' roll soap opera that's not exactly based on Fleetwood Mac.

“That Thing You Do” shares more than a few plot points with “Daisy Jones,” with the advantage of not having to oversell the importance of the Wonders. One episode of “Girls5eva” will tell you more about the music business than do 10 of “Daisy Jones,” and “We Are Lady Parts” present a better argument about why one might want to be in a band. This isn’t a new gambit — “The Monkees” was created in part as a machine to sell records that would in turn promote the television show. Most of the character types and incidents in “Daisy Jones,” outrageous or banal, have had their equivalents (and worse) in the real rock world, which does not make the series itself feel especially real. The series expands the role of Daisy’s friend Simone (Nabiyah Be), described as a “disco pioneer,” who in the book serves mostly as a witness to Daisy’s misadventures. One reason these tropes exist, of course, is that there’s truth in them: Numerous episodes of “Behind the Music” have taught us that pop bands experience moments of dysfunction, to put it mildly. Still, I would be very surprised if Keough and Claflin had not studied live video of [Stevie and Lindsey](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-10/stevie-nicks-lindsey-buckingham-relationship-timeline) locking eyes on [“Silver Springs.”](https://youtu.be/eDwi-8n054s) That Patti Smith’s “Dancing Barefoot” serves as the theme song for the series underscores the fact that this is primarily Daisy and Camila’s story, focused on women in music and the world, and what was expected of them and from them. (“I’m not the muse,” insists Daisy, whose beauty makes men want to own her. The group that seems to have inspired Reid is Fleetwood Mac, which, with its shifting intramural love relationships, sundry drug problems and issues of control — the soapiest of rock’s many operas — was a romance novel/miniseries waiting to happen. The 10-episode series, premiering Friday on Amazon Prime Video, echoes it with a documentary framing — that is, the action is interspersed with scenes in which characters respond to an interviewer 20 years in the future (the late ’90s, saving the production team the trouble of aging the characters half a century). Reid’s approach also means there’s not a lot of dialogue on the page, and so the adaptation is very much a thing of extrapolation and elaboration, with changes and additions to make it more conventionally dramatic — more like a TV series.

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Backstage podcast: Idris Elba, Daisy Jones & The Six, Cocaine Bear ... (Sky News)

Welcome to Backstage, the TV and film podcast from Sky News. Joining Sky's arts and entertainment reporters Claire Gregory and Bethany Minelle to pick through ...

Elizabeth Banks joins the team to talk about her new film Cocaine Bear. It's the school on everyone's lips - hear what the team have to say about the second series of ABC and Disney+'s Abbott Elementary. Welcome to Backstage, the TV and film podcast from Sky News.

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Watch 'Daisy Jones and The Six' on Prime Video on March 3 (About Amazon.co.uk)

Riley Keough and Sam Claflin star in this highly anticipated drama series, based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Prime members can watch Daisy Jones and The Six for free, as well as thousands of other shows and movies. Only interested in Prime Video? The original music will be released by Atlantic Records during the rollout of the series. The show was created by Michael H. Prime Video is included with your Prime membership. How to watch Daisy Jones and The Six on Prime Video You can listen to ‘ [Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbEg1Rke2A)’ and ‘ [Regret Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=W0ywkDC9rEo)’ a duet between lead singers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne now. The series is presented in a documentary-style decades after the band’s split, as former band members reveal the truth behind their fallout. It costs £8.99 per month and £95 per year. Daisy Jones and The Six will be available on [Daisy Jones and The Six](https://www.amazon.co.uk/placeholder_title/dp/B0B8NTLJ3M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AF5V5WA1H55S&keywords=daisy+jones+and+the+6&qid=1676975970&s=instant-video&sprefix=Daisy%2Cinstant-video%2C213&sr=1-1), the limited drama series about the rise and fall of a fictional 70s rock group, premieres on March 3. [best-selling book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daisy-Jones-Taylor-Jenkins-Reid/dp/1786331500) of the same name.

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Tom Dunne: Daisy Jones And The Six promises to be intriguing ... (Irish Examiner)

Amazon's new series is a fictional band in a story loosely based on Fleetwood Mac, and some of the music emanating from the show has already been ...

But where the book rings most true in is the description of the songwriting process. Both the series and the album of the fictionalized songs, Aurora, are out today. But when she performs with The Six and when she and Billy write together… It had all the advantages of being in a real band – kudos, clothing choices- and none of the drawbacks – having to write songs and rehearse. She is a wild, stunningly beautiful child lost to the LA club scene and all that involves from 14. The writing is tight and the tension unrelenting, which is good, because all bands are seconds away from self-immolation. Doug from Travis was working in a retail shop when Fran begged him to join the band. But then a well-wisher introduced us to a drummer, and it was all downhill from there. (The Gorillaz are a cartoon band!) And what can I say: real bands, listen to this fictional band, and weep. Hadn’t been warming to Daisy Jones and the Six – I stopped reading it twice - but news that it was to become a Prime Video series caught my attention. They became a real band, and a great one too. Interestingly, the songs in the book are to be brought to life by writers such as Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne and Marcus Mumford.

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