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

It is no secret that Daisy Jones & the Six, the brand new Amazon streaming sequence primarily based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel of the identical title, is closely impressed by the interpersonal romantic tumult of Fleetwood Mac. Within the wake of the present’s launch, viewers have flocked to social media to establish a pivotal Fleetwood Mac efficiency that served as the premise for the guide.

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, they usually work via their difficult feelings through music.

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

Initially written for 1977’s Rumours however lower from the LP because of time constraints, the Nicks-penned “Silver Springs” addresses the dissolution of her and Buckingham’s relationship with lyrics resembling “Time solid a spell on you / However you will not overlook me / I do know I may have liked you / However you wouldn’t let me.” Fleetwood Mac revived the music for his or her 1997 dwell album The Dance, recorded on Could 23, 1997, at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif. Within the official dwell video, Nicks and Buckingham make intense eye contact as they harmonize over pointed lyrics resembling, “You may by no means get away from the sound of the lady that liked you.”

Watch Fleetwood Mac Carry out ‘Silver Springs’ Stay in 1997

Jenkins Reid confirmed that the efficiency impressed one in all Daisy Jones‘ authentic songs, “Remorse Me,” in a 2019 interview with The Guardian. “It is not lyrically primarily based on ‘Silver Springs’ in any respect, and it would not sound something prefer it, however that idea of a girl’s proper to be indignant is completely primarily based on Stevie Nicks singing ‘Silver Springs’ at Lindsey Buckingham throughout their reunion [album and] present, The Dance,” the writer mentioned.

“The couple of clips from that present I noticed as a youngster had been why I began listening to Fleetwood Mac,” she continued. “They had been all the time, for me, extra than simply music. I’ve all the time been very moved by Stevie Nicks singing that music the best way she did then.”

Actor Sam Claflin, who performs Billy Dunne, just lately advised Elle that a pal additionally despatched him the “Silver Springs” efficiency and advised him to make use of it as inspiration. “He was like, ‘Simply channel this mate,'” Claflin mentioned. He shared it with castmate Riley Keough, who performs Daisy, and she or he was equally impressed.

“She’s like, ‘Whoa, that is Billy and Daisy,'” he recalled. “So I believe we form of, in a way, wished to channel that via the method.”

Very similar to its real-life counterpart, “Remorse Me” additionally will get subjected to scrutiny in Daisy Jones, as Billy votes to maintain it off their album, Aurora, though the remainder of the band loves it. The resolution to chop “Silver Springs” from Rumours gutted Nicks — and packaging it because the B-side to Buckingham’s scathing breakup tune “Go Your Personal Approach” was a daring transfer.

“They took me out to the car parking zone and mentioned, ‘We’re taking “Silver Springs” off the file as a result of it is too lengthy,” Nicks wrote within the Rumours reissue liner notes (through Rolling Stone). “For sure, I did not react properly to that. Finally, I mentioned, ‘What music are you going to placed on the album as a substitute?’ They mentioned, ‘We recorded “I Do not Need to Know,”‘ and I believe Lindsey thought it might be OK with me as a result of I wrote it. However I wasn’t OK with it. That all the time put a shadow over ‘I Do not Need to Know,” sadly – though I like it and it got here out nice.”

Nicks received her vindication when “Silver Springs” was nominated for Greatest Pop Efficiency by a Duo or Group With Vocals on the 1998 Grammy Awards. “You must understand that ‘Silver Springs’ was so genuinely kicked off the file 20 years in the past, and I used to be so genuinely devastated … as a result of I liked the music and it was one of many 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 stunning music simply disappeared. So for it to return again round like this has actually been actually particular to me.”