A few fiery glances between Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham during a 1997 live performance of “Landslide”—that’s all it took to spark author Taylor Jenkins Reid and what would become her best-selling novel, Daisy Jones & the Six, now a series on Prime Video.
“I kept coming back to that moment when Lindsey watched Stevie sing ‘Landslide,’” Jenkins Reid wrote in a 2019 essay for Hello Sunshine, the production company behind the show. “How it looked so much like two people in love. 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.”
Turning one’s broken heart into art is at the center of Reid’s behind-the-music-style story. Although folksy singer Daisy Jones (Riley Keough—granddaughter of Elvis Presley) and frontman/lead guitarist Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) are fictional characters, they’re obvious proxies for Nicks and Buckingham, who remained bandmates for years after their tumultuous breakup during the recording of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album, Rumours.
In the throes of her research, Reid found herself transfixed by their dynamic. “It got to the point where I was driving in my car, and I thought: I just want to know if Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham slept together after Rumours,” she would later tell The Guardian. “I heard myself think that–and that’s insane. I feel so close to them, but that’s because they’re writing about universal things in a specific way that I have a connection to.”
The stormy making of Rumours, which won the Grammy for album of the year and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, was also compounded by the divorce of bass guitarist John McVie and late keyboardist Christine McVie after eight years of marriage. That fissure is reflected by the Six’s bass guitarist, Graham Dunne (played by Will Harrison), and keyboardist Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse), whose split coincides with Billy and Daisy’s parting during the tour for their record, Aurora. In real life, the Rumours era also contained the breakup of Mick Fleetwood’s marriage and the origins of an ill-fated love affair between him and Nicks.
“We broke up because being in that band was just too difficult to be in a relationship,” Nicks told Chum Radio in 2001 of the band’s meteoric rise in the 1970s. “I mean, I think it’s why Lindsey and I, and Chris and John, broke up; the band got so big so fast that we were all just, like, blown away, you know. And it was almost like, we can’t do this. We can’t. This is destroying our business. The business of Fleetwood Mac is being destroyed by these relationships. And…none of us [were] willing to give up the band.”
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