Stevie Nicks has finally shared her thoughts on Daisy Jones & the Six, the Amazon Prime miniseries about a fictional band inspired in large part by Fleetwood Mac.
The legendary singer, 75, posted an image from the show on Instagram on Tuesday, saying she’d just finished watching the miniseries for a second time.
“In the beginning, it wasn’t really my story, but Riley seamlessly, soon became my story,” Nicks wrote, referring to lead actor Riley Keough, who plays singer Daisy Jones. “It brought back memories that made me feel like a ghost watching my own story.“
“It was very emotional for me. I just wish Christine could have seen it. She would have loved it,” Nicks added, in a nod to former bandmate Christine McVie, who died last year. “Hopefully it will continue...”
The Daisy Jones & the Six series was based on the bestselling 2019 novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
The show was released on Prime Video in March, and has been nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Reid has said she drew inspiration for the messy rock ’n’ roll drama from moments between Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham during certain Fleetwood Mac performances.
The two continued on as bandmates for years following an intense breakup while writing and recording their 1977 album Rumours.
“I kept coming back to that moment when Lindsey watched Stevie sing Landslide,” Reid wrote in a 2019 essay. “How it looked so much like two people in love. And yet, we’ll never truly know what lived between them. 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.”
In a 2019 interview with The Guardian, Reid said that Regret Me, a fictional song that appears in her book, was based on Nicks singing Silver Springs to Buckingham during a reunion show in 1997.
“They were always, for me, more than just music,” Reid said. “I have always been very moved by Stevie Nicks singing that song the way she did then.”