Tom Dunne: Daisy Jones And The Six promises to be intriguing viewing

Amazon's new series is a fictional band in a story loosely based on Fleetwood Mac, and some of the music emanating from the show has already been impressing

Will Harrison (Graham), Suki Waterhouse (Karen) in Daisy Jones and the Six.

Fri, 03 Mar, 2023 - 02:00

Tom Dunne

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

Hadn’t been warming to Daisy Jones and the Six – I stopped reading it twice - but news that it was to become a Prime Video series caught my attention. Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel of the same name, it is loosely inspired by Reid’s US childhood, soundtracked as it was by Fleetwood Mac.

The Mac looms large in its pages. It is 1970s America, AOR, drugs, sex, and touring. It is Almost Famous, with bells on. Is Daisy Jones based on Stevie Nicks? Is Billy Dunne actually Lindsey Buckingham in disguise? Or is he a relative of my dad’s brother Willie who emigrated in the 1940s? What is not to love?