Stevie Nicks. Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Photos for ABA
Stevie Nicks has seen Daisy Jones & the Six — the Prime Video sequence 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. At first, it wasn’t actually my story, however Riley [Keough] seamlessly, quickly turned 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 nicely, including, “She would have liked it.” The singer concluded her submit by sharing her hope that the sequence will “proceed” with a second season.
Following Nicks’ heartfelt response, Reese Witherspoon, whose manufacturing firm, Howdy Sunshine, produced the sequence, 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 group! Thank YOU for chopping 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 sequence is nominated for a number of Emmy Awards this yr 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 usually 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 taking part in bass guitar, respectively.
In a submit for Howdy Sunshine earlier this yr, Reid recalled being 13 years previous and seeing a efficiency of “Landslide” when Fleetwood Mac: The Dance (a TV particular) re-aired on MTV.
“Because the music 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 cut up second — actually, a slice of a second — Lindsey put his fist beneath his chin and checked out Stevie as if she was a miracle,” Reid wrote on the corporate’s official web site. “And I believed, ‘Oh, they’re in love with one another.’ I didn’t assume it in any kind of revelatory method. It didn’t even appear to be that massive 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 difficult dynamic between Nicks and Buckingham.
“After 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 regarded a lot like two folks 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 previous wounds may preserve them recent.”
