The Fleetwood Mac Song that Inspired ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’

It’s no secret that Daisy Jones & the Six, the new Amazon streaming collection based mostly on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel of the similar title, is closely impressed by the interpersonal romantic tumult of Fleetwood Mac. In the wake of the present’s launch, viewers have flocked to social media to establish a pivotal Fleetwood Mac efficiency that served as the foundation for the e-book.

Daisy Jones & the Six chronicles the rise and spectacular implosion of the fictional ’70s rock band, led by frontman Billy Dunne and titular frontwoman Daisy Jones. Their intense private and musical chemistry propels them to staggering success whereas additionally threatening to derail the band, and they work by way of their difficult feelings through tune.

Sounds just like Fleetwood Mac’s tempestuous ex-power couple, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, would not it? Plenty of viewers agree, and they’re recirculating footage of the band’s efficiency of the tune “Silver Springs” to show their level.

Originally written for 1977’s Rumours however lower from the LP on account of time constraints, the Nicks-penned “Silver Springs” addresses the dissolution of her and Buckingham’s relationship with lyrics equivalent to “Time cast a spell on you / But you won’t forget me / I know I could have loved you / But you would not let me.” Fleetwood Mac revived the tune for his or her 1997 dwell album The Dance, recorded on May 23, 1997, at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif. In the official dwell video, Nicks and Buckingham make intense eye contact as they harmonize over pointed lyrics equivalent to, “You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you.”

Watch Fleetwood Mac Perform ‘Silver Springs’ Live in 1997

Jenkins Reid confirmed that the efficiency impressed one among Daisy Jones‘ authentic songs, “Regret Me,” in a 2019 interview with The Guardian. “It’s not lyrically based on ‘Silver Springs’ at all, and it wouldn’t sound anything like it, but that concept of a woman’s right to be angry is absolutely based on Stevie Nicks singing ‘Silver Springs’ at Lindsey Buckingham during their reunion [album and] show, The Dance,” the writer stated.

“The couple of clips from that show I saw as a teenager were why I started listening to Fleetwood Mac,” she continued. “They were always, for me, more than just music. I have always been very moved by Stevie Nicks singing that song the way she did then.”

Actor Sam Claflin, who performs Billy Dunne, not too long ago advised Elle that a buddy additionally despatched him the “Silver Springs” efficiency and advised him to make use of it as inspiration. “He was like, ‘Just channel this mate,'” Claflin stated. He shared it with castmate Riley Keough, who performs Daisy, and she was equally impressed.

“She’s like, ‘Whoa, this is Billy and Daisy,'” he recalled. “So I think we kind of, in a sense, wanted to channel that through the process.”

Much like its real-life counterpart, “Regret Me” additionally will get subjected to scrutiny in Daisy Jones, as Billy votes to maintain it off their album, Aurora, despite the fact that the remainder of the band loves it. The determination to chop “Silver Springs” from Rumours gutted Nicks — and packaging it as the B-side to Buckingham’s scathing breakup tune “Go Your Own Way” was a daring transfer.

“They took me out to the parking lot and said, ‘We’re taking “Silver Springs” off the record because it’s too long,” Nicks wrote in the Rumours reissue liner notes (through Rolling Stone). “Needless to say, I didn’t react well to that. Eventually, I said, ‘What song are you going to put on the album instead?’ They said, ‘We recorded “I Don’t Want to Know,”‘ and I think Lindsey thought it would be OK with me because I wrote it. But I wasn’t OK with it. That always put a shadow over ‘I Don’t Want to Know,” sadly – despite the fact that I like it and it got here out nice.”

Nicks got her vindication when “Silver Springs” was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals at the 1998 Grammy Awards. “You have to understand that ‘Silver Springs’ was so genuinely kicked off the report 20 years in the past, and I used to be so genuinely devastated … as a result of I cherished the tune and it was one among the Rumours songs,” she told MTV in 1997. “So I by no means thought that ‘Silver Springs’ would ever be carried out onstage, would ever be heard of once more. My lovely tune simply disappeared. So for it to return again round like this has actually been actually particular to me.”