Stevie Nicks, the inspiration for Daisy, grew up moving around the American Southwest, where her grandfather taught her to sing duets as she fostered an appreciation for music. After receiving a guitar for her 16th birthday, she joined a folk band from her high school.Daisy Jones & The Six is inspired by, and indeed loosely based on, Fleetwood Mac, the recording of their 1977 album Rumours, and the relationship between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.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 …

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Who is Billy Dunne supposed to be

In the book, Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne are clearly meant to be Stevie and Lindsey surrogates; it's their artistic collaboration that launches The Six into a level of fame and acclaim that they otherwise might not have reached, just as Stevie and Lindsey's contributions helped propel Fleetwood Mac into the mainstream.

Is Billy Dunne based on Lindsey Buckingham : Sam Claflin plays frontman/lead guitarist Billy Dunne, a character based on Fleetwood Mac guitarist and Nicks's ex, Lindsey Buckingham.

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.

Who is Billy Dunne supposed to be in Daisy Jones and the Six

Billy Dunne is the co-lead singer of Daisy Jones & the Six (and before that, the sole lead singer of the Six). "The band's charismatic frontman whose increasingly complicated feelings for bandmate and songwriting partner Daisy threaten to upend his life."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.