Every Friday, from March 3rd to March 23rd, weekly batches of Daisy Jones & The Six were released on Amazon Prime for patiently waiting viewers. With the finale breaking hearts all over the world, Daisy Jones & The Six, one of the best book adaptations anyone has ever seen, has fans and the cast begging for more.
In 2019, author Taylor Jenkins Reid published her sixth book, Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictional story that follows the rapid rise and fall of a 1970s American rock band as they try to navigate fame, friendship, drugs, and romance. The multilayered interview-style narration provides the readers with intense and truthful recollections of all the events that occurred up until their last performance. The band starts off with the Dunne brothers, lead singer Billy and lead guitarist Graham, and their friends Eddie on bass, Warren on the drums, and Karen on the keyboard.
With only small venue gigs here and there, they eventually gain enough fans to sign a record deal. Here, they meet struggling singer songwriter Daisy Jones and despite Billy’s stubborn attitude, they join forces to create a hit single and eventually a top-selling album. Daisy is welcomed by everyone in the band except Billy, who sees her beauty, drugs, and creative talent as a threat. However, her presence in the band contributes to their huge success. With tension between fan favorite Camilla, Billy’s wife, and Daisy Jones, a seemingly perfect romance between Graham and Karen that ends in flames due to an unwanted pregnancy, and Eddie feeling excluded in his own band, the end of something that they all dreamed of comes to a screeching halt way sooner than ever anticipated.
The casting directors knew what they were doing when casting Suki Waterhouse as Karen, Will Harrison as Graham, Sebastian Chacon as Warren, and Josh Whitehouse as Eddie since they are talented actors who also happen to be musicians. However, they took a leap of faith when hiring Sam Claflin as Billy and Riley Keough as Daisy Jones, two extremely well-known actors who, ironically being the leaders of the band, had never sung or played an instrument before. But, with about a year of “band camp,” the whole cast created a euphonious album that made history. When the creators decided to release the 11-track album to the public, Daisy Jones & The Six became the first fictional band to top the charts with the release of their first album, “Aurora.”
Reid on the TV series said, “Hopefully, my readers will feel like they’re finding things that they loved about it, but also that it is something different. I like that it’s different. I don’t feel the need to compare them quite the same way as I have seen some people do.”
This show assembled a tight-knit and memorable cast that brought this story to life and sparked an interest for new fans who appreciate and indulge in the 1970s rock band culture.