Daisy Jones and the Six Inspired By Fleetwood Mac

Amazon Prime’s Daisy Jones and the Six is based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book. The story follows a band’s meteoric rise in the ’70s that used Fleetwood Mac as inspiration.

The troubled relationship between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham is a loose inspiration for Daisy Jones & The Six. Before Fleetwood Mac rose to fame, Buckingham and Nicks were two solo artists who had just recently started dating. By the time Fleetwood Mac reached its peak, their marriage had become rather tumultuous, despite the band’s success on the charts.

Do you continue to make music for the group’s benefit or put your needs first? That was a dilemma. This very question inspired Daisy Jones & The Six. Reid’s fictional story has different specifics, but that absurd notion completely changes the protagonists’ lives.

Daisy and Billy work wonders together, much like Nick and Buckingham. It’s simple to overlook that the songs interspersed throughout the series have a fictional link because they are vivid and moving. Later this month, a key scene featuring Daisy and Billy performing their rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “Silver Springs” will be shown. It is not a cover, but the sentiment of “you crushed my heart, and I’ll never let you forget it” is very much present.

Daisy Jones and The Six on Amazon Prime.

With the music, Daisy Jones & The Six’s narrative exposes themes of power and betrayal, much like what you might find in a biography of Fleetwood Mac. In Daisy Jones & The Six, infidelity scandals, inebriated relationships, and power battles result in physical altercations. It is the pinnacle of rock ‘n’ roll, sex, and drugs. What more could one ask for?

If you intend to watch Daisy Jones & The Six, get ready for a rollercoaster of feelings. Along the journey, you’ll probably cry, laugh, and have a few songs stuck in your brain. Each episode is woven together by the stellar cast to tell a story of love and tragedy. That will undoubtedly resonate with you if you’ve ever battled to let go of something—or someone—that isn’t right for you.

Nearly Famous, the previous two iterations of “A Star is Born,” and Tom Hanks’ homage to one-hit wonders, “That Thing You Do,” are just a few examples of rock ‘n’ roll stories that “Daisy Jones” inevitably feels like a rip-off of.

Even though the scenarios don’t feel unique, the array of characters in this program is good enough to carry it through its season.

“It was every band’s dream come true,” the tour manager, played by Timothy Olyphant, muses about the group’s euphoric brush with rock immortality, as filtered through the in-hindsight prism of its personality-driven downfall.

“Daisy Jones and the Six” doesn’t quite meet the criteria for a dream realized, but it does transform its made-up narrative into a four-star soap opera, wistfully reflecting this musical age in general and the occasionally transitory nature of success. It’s a taste of “the calm of remembering what you had and what you lost,” in the words of Fleetwood Mac.

On March 3, “Daisy Jones and the Six” will make its Prime Video debut. You can always listen to Fleetwood Mac if seeing things happen is too much to bear.