How can one finest get pleasure from Daisy Jones & The Six, a story of a fictional infighting ’70s rock group? Cue up Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours. That band impressed this collection primarily based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestseller, which unfolds docudrama type.
At its coronary heart is the difficult love of two broken bandmates: privileged however insecure lead singer Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and married working-class guitarist Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), who offers with dependancy.
Daisy Jones & The Six (Credit: Prime Video)
Keough, Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, lobbied for the position. “She told us that, despite her lineage [Keough recently lost her mother, Lisa Marie Presley], she wasn’t musical,” says exec producer Scott Neustadter. “The next day she sang into a mic for the first time; our music producers were blown away.”
For the soundtrack, high songwriters together with Marcus Mumford and Jackson Browne composed lyrics impressed by the e-book. Filming was on location at famed music scorching spots similar to Sound City Studios and the Whisky a Go Go.
One factor the e-book’s followers can look ahead to is the explosive dynamics not solely between Daisy and Billy however among the many complete band. Says Neustadter: “What I loved so much about the novel was how messy all of its love stories are.”
Daisy Jones & The Six, Series Premiere, Friday, March 3, Prime Video