‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Will Feature 24 Original Songs

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One of 2023's most-anticipated series, Daisy Jones & The Six, finally dropped on Amazon Prime on March 3, 2023. The series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid, is a documentary-style story of the fictional 1970s rock band, Daisy Jones & The Six.

The 10-part series documents the band's rise to fame, and the tumultuous relationship between the two leading characters, Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, behind the scenes. It takes place 20 years after the events in the show (with the characters looking back on the past).

The series was adapted by Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter, who also adapted popular books like The Fault in Our Stars and The Spectacular Now into the respective films, and produced by Lauren Neustadter, Scott's wife, per The New York Times.

If it's anything like the book, the show is sure to be a success. Reid's novel was a New York Times best seller and a pick by Reese Witherspoon's book club (no surprise: Reese's production company, Hello Sunshine, is also backing the series.)

A book and television miniseries about a 1970s rock band's scandals seems like it must be based on something. Spoiler: it is. Below, Women's Health has all the details on the upcoming show, from its cast to the true events that it's based on.

The show features some pretty big names.

The titular Daisy Jones is played by actress Riley Keough. In addition to being the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley (and, of course, granddaughter to Elvis), you might remember Riley from her roles in Mad Max: Fury Road or Zola, per IMDb.

Riley said she felt destined for the role, knowing she'd play Daisy from the minute she heard about the project. "The only other time I’ve experienced that is when I met my husband and I knew a week in that I’m gonna have kids with him and marry him," she told Vanity Fair.

Another familiar face is Sam Claflin, who plays tortured rocker Billy Dunne. Sam reigned as a heart throb through many rom-coms of the 2010s (from Love, Rosie to Me Before You), but he's definitely most known for his role as Finnick Odair from the Hunger Games franchise.

Sam is pretty hyped about this role, per Variety. "I wanted to prove to myself that I could do things that are different and out of the box. I hoped that a few people would watch and think, ‘Oh, wow. Actually, he’s not just this guy,’" he told the publication, referring to his other roles.

Here's a breakdown of the rest of the Daisy Jones & The Six cast, per IMDb:

• Camila Morrone as Camila Dunne

• Suki Waterhouse as Karen Sirko

• Will Harrison as Graham Dunne

• Josh Whitehouse as Eddie Roundtree

• Sebastian Chacon as Warren Rojas

• Nabiyah Be as Simone Jackson

• Tommy Wright as Teddy Price

• Timothy Olyphant as Rod Reyes

'Daisy Jones & The Six' is based off of Fleetwood Mac

Since they're a big rock band in the 1970s, I probably should've seen that coming. Taylor Jenkins Reid was apparently inspired to write this story based on a moment she saw between two members of Fleetwood Mac–Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, per a blog post she wrote for Hello Sunshine.

Reid saw a performance of the band singing "Landslide" while watching TV, and noticed a moment of intimacy between Stevie and Lindsey–specifically Lindsey watching Stevie sing–and thought the pair was definitely in love with each other. After being informed that they weren't, or at least shouldn't have been at the time of the performance, Reid was inspired to write a story about that moment.

"I kept coming back to that moment when Lindsey watched Stevie sing “Landslide.” How it looked so much like two people in love," she wrote. "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."

An album drop will accompany the show.

Obviously, you can't have an entire miniseries about a rock band without some musical performances. The series will produce an entire album, Aurora, in tandem with the series, per Town & Country magazine. The full album will be released with the show on March 3, but you can currently stream two songs–"Regret Me" and "Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)."

In the novel, Reid wrote lyrics for many of the band's songs that are featured within the text and at the back of the book. Apparently 24 songs were produced for the series, created by producer Blake Mills, along with artists Phoebe Bridgers, Marcus Mumford, Jackson Brown, and Taylor Goldsmith, per Buzzfeed News.

So while the band isn't technically real, it will have very real music.

The cast has been bonding since 2020.

Daisy Jones & The Six was originally set to start filming in 2020, just before the world shut down due to the pandemic, but didn't actually start until September 2021, per The New York Times. However, the delayed filming meant that the cast had almost two years to practice their instruments (which they all actually play in the show) and get to know each other, according to Vanity Fair.

“By the time we got back out to Los Angeles June of last year, I think we were all so pumped and so excited to see one another—and we’d all improved so massively musically—that we then immediately just sort of gelled as a band,” Sam Claflin told Vanity Fair.

If you just can't get enough of Daisy Jones & The Six, you can also read the book. I know I will!

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