There was a post-war youth rebellion against conservative politics, driving experimental drug use, feminist thinking and manifestos, and a desire for liberation through books, music, fashion and art. The influence of the Beatles still lingered in harmonized choruses and clap-along rhythms, but hippies were leaving for – or returning from – sojourns to India and Africa and returning to their American homes with the lingering scent of incense and curiosity for sitars, mantras, tambourines and adventurous percussion. It was a period in which instrumentals took on their own, bristling life and hooky choruses met noodling guitar solos, thundering drums and woody, warm bass rhythms. His predilection for guitar-based rock, roots and bluesy country and folk, while understanding the fundamental melodic hooks and danceability of pop, enabled Mills to capture that late 1970s melodic, bluesy rock sound. In addition to his four solo albums, Mills was a guitarist on tours with Lucinda Williams, Julian Casablancas (The Strokes), Cass McCombs, and has performed on recordings by Norah Jones, Dixie Chicks, Pink, Lana Del Rey and Bob Dylan. It reveals Daisy in all her messy, difficult, frustrating wonderfulness and Billy in all his beautiful, naive hopefulness. It’s dazzling, gritty and uncompromising. Whether you’ve read the New York Times bestselling book by Reid, or whether you come in without knowing Daisy and Billy’s story, the Prime Video adaptation is brilliant. Courtesy of Prime Videoįear not, you’ll get no spoilers here. The band is a stellar cast, lead by Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne, Karen (Suki Waterhouse), Warren (Sebastian Chacon), Graham (Will Harrison) and Eddie (Josh Whitehouse).ĭaisy Jones and The Six. They are also volatile: infuriated, enraged and addicted to each other. Together, they are absolutely magic with a nearly supernatural ability to play off one another’s harmonies and rhythms. Her creative partner and the man she is deeply, horribly in love with is singer-songwriter, Billy Dunne. Daisy, with her supermodel beauty and reckless attitude to drugs and drinking, is also a phenomenal singer and a burgeoning songwriter. The lyrics to “Impossible Woman” capture Daisy’s essence, but also the tragedy in her repeatedly being manipulated, exploited and demeaned by men who don’t love her, and men who do. Difficult women, as Daisy Jones learns, can dictate their own careers only to a point before they are punished by the industry, the media and the public for their complexities, contradictions and also having the tenacity to be beautiful, intelligent and independent of men. The problem, of course, is that they were-and are-intelligent women with opinions and the creative skills to disseminate their ideas worldwide. With their angular, beautifully photogenic faces and bodies, it would have been so simple for men in the music industry to market them as vixens and aspirational fashion icons. In real life, Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, Courtney Love and The Runaways’ Cherie Currie all exemplified the “difficult woman”. She is divisive in a world that expects women to be pretty, subservient and predictable. We love Daisy, even though she is selfish and addicted, self-sabotaging and sometimes cruel. Readers can attest this aim was fulfilled in the moment-by-moment, enthralling narrative.
“I wanted you to feel immersed in it, and not like you were reading fiction, but like you were there,” Reid told Rolling Stone back in March 2019. The dialogue between the band members, their management, lovers and friends is immediately compelling.
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The book seemed predestined to be a movie since it is written in the style of a film script.
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Ensuring that the film honored the music and its inspirations, not least Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles, was equally important-if not more so-than the casting. The fictional band was an international phenomenon, according to the story. Reid’s book immerses readers into the lives of a 1970s rock band in all its debaucherously tumultuous glory and drama. When Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine optioned Daisy Jones & the Six back in 2018, the millions of fans who loved Taylor Jenkins Reid’s original novel were both thrilled and nervous.
Addiction, infatuation, and momentary glory followed by the depths of loneliness and despair occur in the choices of songs as much as they are inherently part of Daisy Jones & the Six’s story.
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