Is "Daisy Jones & The Six" Based on a True Story? Here's What We Know

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*Spoilers for Daisy Jones & The Six below!*

The first three episodes of Prime Video's latest series, Daisy Jones & The Six, are officially here and we're so ready to get lost in the whirlwind of the fictional '70s band as they navigate their newfound superstardom. The show, which is based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid, follows two charismatic musicians, Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, as feuding lead singers of a band. Their personal and professional relationships are built by their natural chemistry, which leads them to unimaginable fame — but complicated emotions get in the way of their heightened star power.

As you begin your binge-watch of the highly-anticipated TV adaptation, you may be wondering if the events that unfold on screen happened IRL. Is Daisy Jones & The Six based on a true story, or is it all fiction curated by author Taylor Jenkins Reid? Here's what we know.

Is Daisy Jones & The Six based on a true story?

In short, Daisy Jones & The Six is not based on a true story as the characters and storyline are entirely fictional.

However, author Taylor Jenkins Reid revealed that the fictional band from the '70s is loosely inspired by real-life British-American rockers Fleetwood Mac. In 1977, members included frontman and drummer Mick Fleetwood; singer and tambourine player Stevie Nicks; singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Lindsey Buckingham; singer and keyboardist Christine McVie; and bassist John McVie.

In the Prime Video series, the fictional band Daisy Jones & The Six is comprised of lead singers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, guitarist Graham Dunne, drummer Warren Rojas, bassist Eddie Roundtree, and keyboardist Karen Sirko.

How is Daisy Jones & The Six inspired by Fleetwood Mac?

In an essay penned by Taylor Jenkins Reid for Hello Sunshine, the author shared that certain moments between Fleetwood Mac members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham inspired her as she wrote Daisy Jones & The Six.

In 1997, Jenkins Reid said she watched MTV's concert to commemorate th20thar anniversary of Fleetwood Mac's iconic album, Rumours. The event famously reunited the former bandmates and exes, and their chemistry was apparent in performances of songs like "Silver Springs" and "Landslide."

"When I decided I wanted to write a book about rock ‘n’ roll, I kept coming back to that moment when Lindsey watched Stevie sing 'Landslide.' How it looked so much like two people in love," Jenkins Reid wrote for Hello Sunshine, alluding to Buckingham placing his hand on his chin as Nicks carried the vocals for the performance. "And yet, we’ll never truly know what lived between them. 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."

As they made their fourth album, Rumours, in 1976 and 1977, the members of Fleetwood Mac endured tumultuous drama within the band, which mainly stemmed from relationships between the bandmates. Per Biography, members Christine and John McVie had recently divorced as the album was being recorded and she started openly dating the band's lighting director (unsurprisingly, drama ensued). Nicks and Buckingham had also been working through thein breakup with each other, which inspired tracks like "Go Your Own Way," "Silver Springs," and the band's joint effort about betrayal, "The Chain."

"Everybody was pretty weirded out," Christine McVie said of the time during an interview with Rolling Stone. "Somehow Mick [Fleetwood] was there, the figurehead: 'We must carry on … let's be mature about this, sort it out.' Somehow we waded through it."

Nicks also told Rolling Stone that she didn't "care that everybody knows me and Chris and John and Lindsey all broke up. Because we did. So that’s a fact." She confirmed that most of the songs on Rumours "are definitely about people in the band …. Chris’ relationships, John’s relationship, Mick’s relationship, Lindsey’s and mine. They’re all there and very honest and people will know exactly what I am talking about … people will really enjoy listening to what happened since the last album."

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Daisy Jones & The Six is now streaming on Prime Video, with new episodes releasing every Friday.

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