The Juicy, Real-Life Fleetwood Mac Stories That Inspired ‘Daisy Jones and The Six’
Part of the fun of Daisy Jones & The Six, now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video and based on the bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, is making connections and comparisons between the fictional band and the series’ real-life rock era of 1968 to 1977.
Fleetwood Mac’s legendary intra-band romantic dynamics are certainly the clearest parallels. Reid has even said that she started her novel “with the germ of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac,” inviting a guessing game among the book’s fans—and, now, the show’s new viewers—over which plot points mirror the juiciest gossip about real-life rock stars.
Other connections in Daisy Jones are more subtle, or wishful stretches of a fan’s imagination. But any good song makes one imagine what made the music.