Though author Taylor Jenkins Reid, who wrote the book that the Prime Video series was adapted from, has previously said the novel is not strictly based on Fleetwood Mac, she has admitted that she drew inspiration from the renowned rock band.The music group that inspired author Taylor Jenkins Reid when forming her fictional band was none other than Fleetwood Mac — and fans of both the novel and Amazon series can see parallels between the character of Daisy Jones and Fleetwood Mac's legendary singer Stevie Nicks.Wingate had several inspirations for Camila Dunne (Camila Morrone), because the character had such an evolution over the course of the show. Two of her primary sources of inspiration were Ali MacGraw and Bianca Jagger, but Sharon Tate was a stopping point along Camila's storyline.

Who is Simone Jackson based on : Reid said Simone is "very loosely based on Donna Summer," a disco star who credited gay clubs with her early success. "The face of rock 'n' roll was the white man and the face of disco was the Black woman," Be told Insider. In the book, Simone's sexuality is unknown.

Who is Billy Dunne supposed to be

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 …

Is Billy Dunne a real person : Although the show is formatted as a factual oral history of a popular 1970s band, sadly Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne are entirely fictional, with the TV show being an adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel of the same name.

Karen is also very clearly a fictitious rendering of Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, the band that inspired Jenkins Reid to pen Daisy Jones to begin with. In some ways, Karen's story arc mimics the wildly successful, childless lives of McVie and fellow Fleetwood Mac member, Stevie Nicks.

Teddy Price is an entirely fictional character designed solely for this story. He doesn't appear to have any one major influence either. Teddy seems to be created in response to the idea of a music producer who helps shape talent into genius, but not a fictionalized version of a real person.