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“An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand

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Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

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An Amazon Best Book of March 2019: There is something a little intoxicating about Daisy Jones and the Six. This is the story of a young, captivating singer who came of age in the late 60s/early 70s, all told as an oral history. The Six did not hit the big time until Daisy joined the band as their lead singer, but her presence brought along drama, intrigue, and a variety of tensions between herself and Billy Dunne, the leader of The Six. It’s best not to know too much about this book going into it; instead, allow the transcribed interviews from the band members (they weren’t real, but they seem real), and from those who tagged along during this great fictitious band’s run, to unspool the story for you. --Chris Schluep, Amazon Book Review

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“I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Taylor Jenkins Reid transported me into the magic of the ’70s music scene in a way I’ll never forget. The characters are beautifully layered and complex. Daisy and the band captured my heart, and they’re sure to capture yours, too.”—Reese Witherspoon

“Backstage intrigue is the engine of Daisy Jones & The Six. . . . [A] celebration of American mythmaking.”—Vogue

“Each character is compelling but Daisy Jones is the star. She’s a blazing talent who is unapologetic in her sexuality and lives life on her own terms. . . . Like a poignant song with lyrics that speak to your soul, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid will transport you to another place and time.”—Associated Press

“Reid’s wit and gift for telling a perfectly paced story make this one of the most enjoyably readable books of the year.”—Nylon

“Wildly delicious.” —Entertainment Weekly

“This stylish and propulsive novel, presented in the form of an oral history, explores the ascent of a (fictional) hard-partying, iconic 1970s rock band. It reads like the transcript of a particularly juicy episode of VH1’s ‘Behind the Music.’”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

“Daisy Jones & The Six is just plain fun from cover to cover. . . . Her characters feel so vividly real, you’ll wish you could stream their albums, YouTube their concerts, and google their wildest moments to see them for yourself.”—HelloGiggles

“[A] juicy tell-all-style page-turner.”—Bustle

“Evocative . . . brilliant.”—Romper

“Prepare to fall for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s newest novel, Daisy Jones & The Six.”—PopSugar

“Reid’s novel so resembles a memoir of a real band and conjures such true-to-life images of the seventies music scene that readers will think they’re listening to Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. Reid is unsurpassed in her ability to create complex characters working through emotions that will make your toes curl.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Reid delivers a stunning story of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll in the 1960s and ’70s in this expertly wrought novel. Mimicking the style and substance of a tell-all celebrity memoir . . . Reid creates both story line and character gold. The book’s prose is propulsive, original, and often raw.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Reid is a stunning writer whose characters are unforgettable and whose stories are deeply emotional. . . . Her most gripping novel yet.”—Emily Giffin, author of All We Ever Wanted

“Reid’s writing is addictive and all-consuming. Filled with passion, complexity, and fascinating detail, Daisy Jones & The Six felt so real, I had to remind myself that it was fiction.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost

“From the very first page you know this book is something special. Taylor Jenkins Reid brings insight and poetry to a story that’s utterly unique and deeply authentic, one that transports you to world of seventies rock—with all its genius and temptation and creativity—so completely it feels like you’re there.”—Katherine Center, author of How to Walk Away

“Raw, emotive, and addictively voyeuristic, Daisy Jones & The Six is imbued with the same anguished heart that fuels the very best rock ‘n’ roll. Like my favorite albums, this book will live with me for a very long time.”—Steven Rowley, author of Lily and the Octopus

About the Author

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter.

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Daisy Jones

1965–1972

Daisy Jones was born in 1951 and grew up in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Frank Jones, the well-known British painter, and Jeanne LeFevre, a French model, Daisy started to make a name for herself in the late sixties as a young teenager on the Sunset Strip.

Elaine Chang (biographer, author of Daisy Jones: Wild Flower): Here is what is so captivating about Daisy Jones even before she was “Daisy Jones.”

You’ve got a rich white girl, growing up in L.A. She’s gorgeous—even as a child. She has these stunning big blue eyes—dark, cobalt blue. One of my favorite anecdotes about her is that in the eighties a colored-contact company actually created a shade called Daisy Blue. She’s got copper-red hair that is thick and wavy and . . . takes up so much space. And then her cheekbones almost seem swollen, that’s how defined they are. And she’s got an incredible voice that she doesn’t cultivate, never takes a lesson. She’s born with all the money in the world, access to whatever she wants—artists, drugs, clubs—anything and everything at her disposal.

But she has no one. No siblings, no extended family in Los Angeles. Two parents who are so into their own world that they are all but indifferent to her existence. Although, they never shy away from making her pose for their artist friends. That’s why there are so many paintings and photos of Daisy as a child—the artists that came into that home saw Daisy Jones, saw how gorgeous she was, and wanted to capture her. It’s telling that there is no Frank Jones piece of Daisy. Her father is too busy with his male nudes to pay much attention to his daughter. And in general, Daisy spends her childhood rather alone.

But she’s actually a very gregarious, outgoing kid—Daisy would often ask to get her hair cut just because she loved her hairdresser, she would ask neighbors if she could walk their dogs, there was even a family joke about the time Daisy tried to bake a birthday cake for the mailman. So this is a girl that desperately wants to connect. But there’s no one in her life who is truly interested in who she is, especially not her parents. And it really breaks her. But it is also how she grows up to become an icon.

We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.

So it makes sense that Daisy starts to find herself on the Sunset Strip. This glamorous, seedy place.

Daisy Jones (singer, Daisy Jones & The Six): I could walk down to the Strip from my house. I was about fourteen, sick of being stuck in the house, just looking for something to do. I wasn’t old enough to get into any of the bars and clubs but I went anyway.

I remember bumming a cigarette off of a roadie for the Byrds when I was pretty young. I learned quickly that people thought you were older if you didn’t wear your bra. And sometimes I’d wear a bandanna headband like the cool girls had on. I wanted to fit in with the groupies on the sidewalk, with their joints and their flasks and all of that.

So I bummed a cigarette from this roadie outside the Whisky a Go Go one night—the first time I’d ever had one and I tried to pretend I did it all the time. I held the cough in my throat and what have you—and I was flirting with him the best I could. I’m embarrassed to think about it now, how clumsy I probably was.

But eventually, some guy comes up to the roadie and says, “We gotta get inside and set up the amps.” And he turns to me and says, “You coming?” And that’s how I snuck into the Whisky for the first time.

I stayed out that night until three or four in the morning. I’d never done anything like that before. But suddenly it was like I existed. I was a part of something. I went from zero to sixty that night. I was drinking and smoking anything anybody would give me.

When I got home, I walked in through the front door, drunk and stoned, and crashed in my bed. I’m pretty sure my parents never even noticed I was gone.

I got up, went out the next night, did the same thing.

Eventually, the bouncers on the Strip recognized me and let me in wherever I was going. The Whisky, London Fog, the Riot House. No one cared how young I was.

Greg McGuinness (former concierge, the Continental Hyatt House): Ah, man, I don’t know how long Daisy was hanging around the Hyatt House before I noticed her. But I remember the first time I saw her. I was on the phone and in walks this crazy tall, crazy skinny girl with these bangs. And the biggest, roundest blue eyes you ever saw in your life, man. She also had this smile. Huge smile. She came in on the arm of some guy. I don’t remember who.

A lot of the girls around the Strip back then, I mean, they were young, but they tried to seem older. Daisy just was, though. Didn’t seem like she was trying to be anything. Except herself.

After that, I noticed she was at the hotel a lot. She was always laughing. There was nothing jaded about her, ’least when I knew her. It was like watching Bambi learn how to walk. She was real naïve and real vulnerable but you could tell there was something about her.

I was nervous for her, tell you the truth. There were so many men in the scene that were . . . into young girls. Thirty-something rock stars sleeping with teenagers. Not saying it was okay, just saying that’s how it was. How old was Lori Mattix when she was with Jimmy Page? Fourteen? And Iggy Pop and Sable Starr? He sang about it, man. He was bragging about it.

When it came to Daisy—I mean, the singers, the guitarists, the roadies—everybody was looking at her. Whenever I saw her, though, I’d try to make sure she was doing all right. I kept tabs on her here and there. I really liked her. She was just cooler than anything else happening around her.

Daisy: I learned about sex and love the hard way. That men will take what they want and feel no debt, that some people only want one piece of you.

I do think there were girls—the Plaster Casters, some of the GTOs—maybe they weren’t being taken advantage of, I don’t know. But it was a bad scene for me, at first.

I lost my virginity to somebody that . . . it doesn’t matter who it was. He was older, he was a drummer. We were in the lobby of the Riot House and he invited me upstairs to do some lines. He said I was the girl of his dreams.

I was drawn to him mainly because he was drawn to me. I wanted someone to single me out as something special. I was just so desperate to hold someone’s interest.

Before I knew it, we were on his bed. And he asked me if I knew what I was doing and I said yes even though the answer was no. But everyone always talked about free love and how sex was a good thing. If you were cool, if you were hip, you liked sex.

I stared at the ceiling the whole time, waiting for him to be done. I knew I was supposed to be moving around but I stayed perfectly still, scared to move. All you could hear in the room was the sound of our clothes rubbing up against the bedspread.

I had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing things I knew I didn’t want to be doing. But I’ve had a lot of therapy in my life now. And I mean a lot of therapy. And I see it now. I see myself clearly now. I wanted to be around these men—these stars—because I didn’t know how else to be important. And I figured I had to please them if I wanted to stay.

When he was done, he got up. And I pulled my dress down. And he said, “If you want to go back down to your friends, that’s all right.” I didn’t really have any friends. But I knew he meant I needed to leave. So I did.

He never talked to me again.

Simone Jackson (disco star): I remember seeing Daisy on the dance floor one night at the Whisky. Everybody saw her. Your eye went right to her. If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold.

Daisy: Simone became my best friend.

Simone: I brought Daisy out with me everywhere. I never had a sister.

I remember . . . It was the Sunset Strip riot, when all of us went down to Pandora’s and protested the curfew and the cops. Daisy and I went out, protested, met up with some actors and went over to Barney’s Beanery to keep partying. After that, we went back to somebody’s place. Daisy passed out on this guy’s patio. We didn’t go home until the next afternoon. She was maybe fifteen. I was probably nineteen. I just kept thinking, Doesn’t anybody care about this girl but me?

And, by the way, we were all on speed back then, even Daisy as young as she was. But if you wanted to stay skinny and be up all night, you were taking something. Mostly bennies or black beauties.

Daisy: Diet pills were an easy choice. It didn’t even feel like a choice. It didn’t even feel like we were getting high, at first. Coke, too. If it was around, you took a bump. People didn’t even consider it an addiction. It wasn’t like that.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; Later Printing edition (March 5, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1524798622
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1524798628
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.35 x 1.18 x 9.55 inches

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an oral history of the breakup of a fictional 70's rock band
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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a very highly recommended account of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll via the history and breakup of a legendary fictional 70's rock band. This one is a winner.

Daisy Jones, the daughter of a famous artist and a French model, grew up in LA in the late 1960's. At fourteen she started hanging out at the famous clubs on the Sunset Strip and drinking and doing drugs followed. Her friend, disco singer Simone, is the only one trying to look out for her. Daisy is a free spirited "it" girl who is first noticed for her looks, but soon has her voice capturing the attention of those with influence and she is signed with Runner Records.

Billy Dunne and his brother Graham started the band that eventually grew and took off to become The Six. Billy is the song writer and charismatic front man for the band and has artistic control over the group. On their first tour, Billy went wild and nearly ruined his marriage to Camila, who was pregnant with their first child. After the tour he went to rehab and his overwhelming goal beyond making it big with The Six, is to stay sober and faithful to Camila and their family.

After they have one hit where Daisy sings with Billy on one of his songs, Runner Records decides that Billy and Daisy need to work together. While they are both dynamic on their own, when they sing together they are extraordinary, electric, and transcendent. Billy doesn't want Daisy as part of his band, but they end up working together writing the songs on the album that produced some of the biggest hits in the seventies. No one knew the story behind the band and the split that ended it all - until now.

Daisy Jones & The Six is written like a documentary novel, an oral history, with quotes from the band members, Billy, Daisy, Camila, and Simone. All the characters are written with unique voices in their comments so you can tell who is talking even if you didn't note their name. While reading you can't help but envision the video in your mind, flipping between comments from the different people involved in Daisy Jones & The Six. This is part of what makes the book so amazing. You will easily believe this was a real band and real members are being interviewed. You will be surprised once you learn who is conducting the interviews and asking the questions.

The plot unfolds through the oral history interviews, starting with their beginnings up to their rise to fame. Reid definitely sets her story in the time and place of the late sixties to the late seventies. The clashes, struggles, and power of Billy and Daisy working together, writing the music, is captured perfectly. This really is a riveting and unforgettable novel; my attention was captured right at the start and held fast to the end. Remarkably, at the end of the book Reid has written all the lyrics for the songs. Need I mention that the writing is amazing? Well, it is an incredibly well-written book and captured my attention from beginning to end. I simple could not read it fast enough as I was desperate to learn what happened next.

(When I first read the synopsis for Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six, I immediately tried to get a review copy as I knew it would be a novel I would love. I never did get the advanced reading copy, but I was right to try as this is an amazing novel. Now I need to find time to read Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.)

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It’s a good book; I liked it. 😊 It wasn’t the best book I’ve ever read, but it was good; hence, giving it 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (I only save my 5 stars for books I REALLY like). I first heard of this book through the Amazon Prime & thought the show looked cool, but I wanted to wait to watch the show till I read the book. So, now I look forward to watching the show for comparison! Also, should mention I read this for a Book Club, too, and I didn’t pick it, but still, I liked it. 👍🏻☺️ It’s written in a really interesting way, too: it’s not written in a regular novel format with dialogue & everything; it’s written as a long interview (I won’t tell you who the interviewer is because that’s a MAJOR spoiler). But I found myself really liking the way it was written . . . Now, this is my 1st book by Taylor Jenkins Reid, so I have NO idea if this is how she (I’m assuming she’s a she here 😅) usually writes, but I REALLY like the way it was written! Also, now I’m interested to see how close the story is to the real Fleetwood Mac band’s story, the REAL band the book is based on, as well. The only thing that made me a little sad about is that at the end of the Audible version, they played ‘Honeycomb’ (a song that the band made “famous” in the story), but it was only the instrumental, nobody sang, & I looked through the Kindle version (I like to have both the audiobook AND the e-book to be able to follow along while I listen) to see if they had the lyrics in the back (they had the lyrics to some of the songs at the end), but NOT ‘Honeycomb’, which was again, the band’s most famous song in the story! 🥺 Oh, and I couldn’t STAND Eddie; he was my least favorite “band member” of the group! ALWAYS complaining about EVERYTHING & EVERYONE . . . I was like, “Dude, just stop talking . . . STOP talking . . . ” whenever he was “speaking” . . . 😅 (I really wanna say some other words, but don’t want this review to get taken down, but I think you get the idea! 😅) And I also like that the story didn’t turn out as predictable as I thought it was going to be . . . Like at one point, I thought, “Okay, I know where this is all going . . . ” (again, I won’t tell you what I thought or what really happened because it’s a spoiler). But no, it didn’t end the way I thought it was all going to . . . It was a nice, refreshing surprise! So, all in all, a good story & good writing style! Would recommend!! 😊👍🏻

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Maulin Amin
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Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2025
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This book. Oh, this book. Daisy Jones and The Six isn’t just a story—it’s an experience, a tempest of emotions that refuses to let you go.

Daisy is the storm. She’s the embodiment of female rage and resilience, the wild winds of change, and the quiet calm before chaos. She’s the first drops of rain on dry soil, the heat of a wildfire, the salt of ocean waves crashing against the shore. Tender and callous, raw and refined—she is everything.

Billy, on the other hand, is the void. He’s a man so lost in his fear and ego that he clings to idealism like a lifeline. He’s the hollow vacuum that swallows everything around him. Where Daisy is everything, Billy is nothing—but together, they’re two broken pieces of a puzzle trying desperately to fit.

What happens when the storm meets the void? When light collides with darkness? That’s the heart of this book. It’s messy, it’s devastating, and it’s breathtaking.

If you’re a Taylor Swift fan, you know how her music makes you feel seen—how it burrows into your chest and pulls at emotions you didn’t know you had. That’s what this book does. The music the band creates isn’t just on the page; it’s in your head, in your heart. It stays with you.

Daisy is one of the strongest, most flawed protagonists I’ve ever read. She’s selfish, impulsive, and deeply human. Her story drives the narrative into a whirlwind of pain, love, and self-discovery. Meanwhile, Billy’s internal struggle is achingly real—his fight to balance what he wants, what he needs, and what he thinks is right is heartbreakingly honest.

This isn’t just a story about a band coming together and falling apart. It’s about dreams and unfulfilled potential. It’s about unrequited love and the ache of what could have been. It’s about hope and heartbreak, growing up and falling down, and finding the strength to rise again.

I went into this book with low expectations. I was skeptical, thinking it wouldn’t live up to the hype. I was wrong. The characters are raw, real, and purposeful. They grow in ways that make your heart shatter and heal. You feel their conundrums, their pain, their dreams. You feel them.

I can’t recommend the audiobook enough. The full cast production brings these characters to life in a way that’s unforgettable—it’s like listening to a rockumentary come to life. Flipping through the ebook as I listened only deepened the experience.

Daisy Jones and The Six is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Taylor Jenkins Reid has crafted a masterpiece—a story that feels like every Taylor Swift song you’ve ever cried to, every love you’ve ever lost, every dream you’ve ever dared to chase.

6/5 stars. If you’re patient with it, this book will reward you with an experience that will stay in your soul forever.

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Ailyn Cortes
¿Qué mejor que una banda en los 70's?
Reviewed in Mexico on June 22, 2023
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Es un libro bastante ameno de leer una vez que te enganchas con la historia. Los personajes son legendarios y realmente puedes ver esa influencia de las bandas de rock (Fletwood Mac) en cada uno, especialmente en Daisy y Billy. El formato de entrevista con el que se desarrolla el libro permite que el lector cree sus propias opiniones respecto a los hechos que se narran pues los personajes no son los más confiables por los propios intereses. Se tratra de una lectura que te lleva a través de la escena del rock entre los 60 y 70's del siglo pasado mientras lees sobre la banda más famosa que pudo haber en ese momento.

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Reviewed in Mexico on June 22, 2023
Es un libro bastante ameno de leer una vez que te enganchas con la historia. Los personajes son legendarios y realmente puedes ver esa influencia de las bandas de rock (Fletwood Mac) en cada uno, especialmente en Daisy y Billy. El formato de entrevista con el que se desarrolla el libro permite que el lector cree sus propias opiniones respecto a los hechos que se narran pues los personajes no son los más confiables por los propios intereses. Se tratra de una lectura que te lleva a través de la escena del rock entre los 60 y 70's del siglo pasado mientras lees sobre la banda más famosa que pudo haber en ese momento.

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Aline Lima
Leitura fluida e instigante
Reviewed in Brazil on April 20, 2023
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O livro conta a história de uma banda fictícia que dominou as paradas nos anos 70, mas após um único álbum se separou sem qualquer explicação. A história é narrada como um documentário que entrevista os integrantes da banda e pessoas relacionadas à banda para entender o que aconteceu, o que torna extremamente interessante acompanhar a narrativa pelo ponto de vista dos personagens. Além disso, por ser uma narrativa oral, a leitura é muita fluida, de modo que nem percebemos o tempo passar. É um ótimo livro!

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Franziska Busch
Ungewöhnlicher Stil und sehr viel Spaß
Reviewed in Germany on November 26, 2024
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Das Buch hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Ich habe er bereits mehrfach verschenkt

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Le talent de Taylor Jenkins Reid a encore frappé !
Reviewed in France on July 2, 2024
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Un roman que je voulais lire depuis longtemps, et c’est finalement en audio que je l’ai lu, ou devrais-je dire dévoré ! Car oui, je l’ai bouffé ce livre, tant la version audio était immersive.

Comme pour les « Sept maris d’Evelyn Hugo », Taylor Jenkins Reid opte pour le format de l’interview/du récit confié à un tiers pour raconter son histoire, ici celle de l’ascension vers la gloire (et sa fin précipitée) d’un groupe de rock fictif dans l’Amérique psychédélique des années 70. Et quoi de mieux qu’une version audio, avec des comédiens différents pour incarner chaque personnage ?

J’ai vraiment été plongée dans un univers musical qui me parle beaucoup, sachant que j’ai grandi avec des parents hippies sur les bords et fans de rock US des 70’s, donc forcément, toutes ces références m’ont parlée, et cela a forcément joué sur mon ressenti.

J’ai adoré découvrir l’histoire de Daisy, voir la force du personnage de Camilla, voir Karen affirmer ses choix et tracer sa propre route. C’est un récit forcément subjectif, puisque chaque personnage livre sa perception et ses souvenirs, surtout délivré aussi longtemps après les évènements.

Au-delà de l’histoire d’un groupe, c’est surtout celle de deux destins croisés : Daisy, ses addictions et ses désirs de reconnaissance VS Billy, son combat contre les addictions, sa volonté farouche de réussir dans la musique, quitte à s’affranchir des envies et opinions de ses amis et co-musiciens tout en faisant passer sa vie de famille (et la rédemption qui va avec) avant tout.

Un récit intense et prenant, porté par le formidable travail d’interprétation des narrateurs, que j’ai dévoré avec un énorme plaisir. Maintenant, je suis curieuse de voir l’adaptation qu’Amazon Prime a sorti …

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