Stevie Nicks. Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Photos for ABA
Stevie Nicks has seen Daisy Jones & the Six — the Prime Video collection that’s rumored to be loosely based mostly on her music profession with Fleetwood Mac.
“Simply completed watching Daisy Jones + the 6 for the 2nd time. To start with, it wasn’t actually my story, however Riley [Keough] seamlessly, quickly grew to become my story,” Nicks, 75, wrote through her social media on Tuesday, August 15, alongside a photograph of the solid. “It introduced again recollections that made me really feel like a ghost watching my very own story. It was very emotional for me.”
Nicks additionally shared her want that fellow Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie, who died in November 2022, “may have seen” the present as effectively, including, “She would have liked it.” The singer concluded her publish by sharing her hope that the collection will “proceed” with a second season.
Following Nicks’ heartfelt response, Reese Witherspoon, whose manufacturing firm, Whats up Sunshine, produced the collection, took to the singer’s feedback part to thank her for the shoutout. “Oh my stars , Stevie !! ✨This implies the world to the entire @daisyjonesandthesix crew! Thank YOU for slicing the trail!” she wrote through Instagram.
Daisy Jones & the Six, which is predicated on the e book of the identical identify by Taylor Jenkins Reid, follows the rise and fall of a fictional rock band within the ’70s. The collection is nominated for a number of Emmy Awards this 12 months and stars Riley Keough (Daisy), Sam Claflin (Billy), Suki Waterhouse (Karen), Camila Morrone (Camila), Will Harrison (Graham), Sebastian Chacon (Warren), Josh Whitehouse (Eddie), Timothy Olyphant (Rod) and Nabiyah Be (Simone) within the lead roles.
The story has typically made headlines for its parallels to Fleetwood Mac — the legendary band made up of Nicks, McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. Reid, 39, has admitted to utilizing them as inspiration. The fictional band from the novel is even arrange equally to Fleetwood Mac, with Billy (male vocalist), Daisy (feminine vocalist), Warren Rhodes (drummer), Karen (keyboardist and vocalist), Eddie Roundtree (bass guitarist), and Graham (lead guitar) mirroring Buckingham, 73, as lead guitar and vocals, Nicks as a vocalist, Fleetwood on the drums, Christine on keyboard and vocals and John McVie enjoying bass guitar, respectively.
In a publish for Whats up Sunshine earlier this 12 months, Reid recalled being 13 years outdated and seeing a efficiency of “Landslide” when Fleetwood Mac: The Dance (a TV particular) re-aired on MTV.
“Because the track was coming to an finish, Stevie and Lindsey moved nearer to at least one one other, smiling tenderly, perhaps even just a little bit wistfully. Lindsey stopped strumming for a second and Stevie let it fly as he watched from the sideline. And for one break up second — actually, a slice of a second — Lindsey put his fist below his chin and checked out Stevie as if she was a miracle,” Reid wrote on the corporate’s official web site. “And I assumed, ‘Oh, they’re in love with one another.’ I didn’t assume it in any form of revelatory approach. It didn’t even seem to be that huge of a realization. It simply appeared apparent.”
When Reid realized that the 2 musicians hadn’t been in a relationship for many years on the time of the efficiency, she was shocked — and needed to hunt a greater understanding of the sophisticated dynamic between Nicks and Buckingham.
“Once I determined I needed to jot down a e book about rock ‘n’ roll, I saved coming again to that second when Lindsey watched Stevie sing ‘Landslide.’ The way it appeared a lot like two individuals in love. And but, we’ll by no means actually know what lived between them,” she defined about her 2019 novel. “I needed to jot down a narrative about that, about how the traces between actual life and efficiency can get blurred, about how singing about outdated wounds would possibly hold them recent.”
