Stevie Nicks Felt ‘Like a Ghost’ Watching ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ 

Stevie Nicks has seen Daisy Jones & the Six — the Prime Video sequence that’s rumored to be loosely primarily based on her music profession with Fleetwood Mac. 

“Just finished watching Daisy Jones + the 6 for the 2nd time. In the beginning, it wasn’t really my story, but Riley [Keough] seamlessly, soon became my story,” Nicks, 75, wrote by way of her social media on Tuesday, August 15, alongside a picture of the solid. “It brought back memories that made me feel like a ghost watching my own story. It was very emotional for me.” 

Nicks additionally shared her want that fellow Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie, who died in November 2022, “could have seen” the present as properly, including, “She would have loved it.” The singer concluded her put up by sharing her hope that the sequence will “continue” with a second season. 

Following Nicks’ heartfelt response, Reese Witherspoon, whose manufacturing firm, Hello Sunshine, produced the sequence, took to the singer’s feedback part to thank her for the shoutout. “Oh my stars , Stevie !! ✨This means the world to the whole @daisyjonesandthesix team! Thank YOU for cutting the path!” she wrote by way of Instagram. 

Daisy Jones & the Six, which is predicated on the e-book of the similar identify by Taylor Jenkins Reid, follows the rise and fall of a fictional rock band in the ’70s. The sequence is nominated for a number of Emmy Awards this 12 months and stars Riley Keough (Daisy), Sam Claflin (Billy), Suki Waterhouse (Karen), Camila Morrone (Camila), Will Harrison (Graham), Sebastian Chacon (Warren), Josh Whitehouse (Eddie), Timothy Olyphant (Rod) and Nabiyah Be (Simone) in the lead roles.

The story has usually made headlines for its parallels to Fleetwood Mac — the legendary band made up of Nicks, McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. Reid, 39, has admitted to utilizing them as inspiration. The fictional band from the novel is even arrange equally to Fleetwood Mac, with Billy (male vocalist), Daisy (feminine vocalist), Warren Rhodes (drummer), Karen (keyboardist and vocalist), Eddie Roundtree (bass guitarist), and Graham (lead guitar) mirroring Buckingham, 73, as lead guitar and vocals, Nicks as a vocalist, Fleetwood at the drums, Christine on keyboard and vocals and John McVie enjoying bass guitar, respectively.

In a put up for Hello Sunshine earlier this 12 months, Reid recalled being 13 years previous and seeing a efficiency of “Landslide” when Fleetwood Mac: The Dance (a TV particular) re-aired on MTV. 

“As the song was coming to an end, Stevie and Lindsey moved closer to one another, smiling tenderly, maybe even a little bit wistfully. Lindsey stopped strumming for a moment and Stevie let it fly as he watched from the sideline. And for one split second — truly, a slice of a moment — Lindsey put his fist under his chin and looked at Stevie as if she was a miracle,” Reid wrote on the firm’s official web site. “And I thought, ‘Oh, they’re in love with each other.’ I did not think it in any sort of revelatory way. It didn’t even seem like that big of a realization. It just seemed obvious.”

When Reid realized that the two musicians hadn’t been in a relationship for many years at the time of the efficiency, she was shocked — and wished to hunt a higher understanding of the difficult dynamic between Nicks and Buckingham. 

“When I decided I wanted to write a book about rock ‘n’ roll, I kept coming back to that moment when Lindsey watched Stevie sing ‘Landslide.’ How it looked so much like two people in love. And yet, we’ll never truly know what lived between them,” she defined about her 2019 novel. “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.”