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Entertainment Now | February 25 - March 3, 2023 By Sarah Passingham TV Media T ransport yourself back to the wild Los Angeles rock 'n' roll scene of the 1970s on a magic shag carpet ride with a much-anticipated new limited series. The first three episodes of "Daisy Jones & the Six" drop on Prime Video Friday, March 3. Based on the novel by author Taylor Jen - kins Reid, the musical drama de- tails the rise and fall of the titular fictional classic rock band fronted by lead singers Daisy Jones (Riley Keough, "Mad Max: Fury Road," 2015) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claf - lin, "Peaky Blinders"). Skyrocketing to fame in the late 1970s, Daisy Jones & the Six disap- pear at the pinnacle of their career, calling it quits after a sold-out show at Chicago's Soldier Field, per a January Prime Video news re - lease. Years after the break, the for- mer band members agree to spill all about their split, revealing how both romantic and musical rela - tionships went up in flames after that fateful show. Having come from one of the most famous musical families in history, Keough is a natural fit to play the enigmatic rock star, Daisy Jones. Granddaughter of Elvis Pre - sley, Keough was certainly raised hearing stories of the highs and lows of rock star fame, but she named her mother, the late Lisa Marie Presley, as her inspiration for the role. Keough told People maga- zine in December 2022 that she was "raised by somebody who did their own thing and didn't really care what other people thought. She was definitely inspirational to me." The rest of the main cast are Ca- mila Morrone ("Valley Girl," 2020) as Camila Dunne, Will Harrison ("This Is a Film About My Mother," 2022) as Graham Dunne, Suki Wa- terhouse ("Misbehaviour," 2020) as Karen Sirko, Josh Whitehouse ("The Knight Before Christmas," 2019) as Eddie Roundtree, Sebas- tian Chacon ("Penny Dreadful: City of Angels") as Warren Rojas, Nabi- yah Be ("Black Panther," 2018) as Simone Jackson and Tom Wright ("Medical Police") as Teddy Price. "Justified" star Timothy Olyphant makes a guest appearance as Rod Reyes in the series. "Daisy Jones & the Six" has been a big project for Prime Video — it acquired film and TV rights for the novel before it was even pub- lished — that expands even be- yond the screen. A teaser trailer for the series was released in January, highlighting a real song by the fic- tional band, called "Regret Me." Clips of the series play over the song, which helps to imply that maybe there is some forbidden ro- mance between band members on the horizon. "Regret Me" was offi- cially released in tandem with the trailer, and a full album called "Au- rora," with contributions from mu- sicians Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne and Marcus Mumford, re- leases on premiere day, Friday, March 31, from Atlantic Records. You may have heard some ru- mors that "Daisy Jones & the Six" was loosely based on the tumultu- ous personal and professional lives of a certain real-life band, and that would be true. In an essay for Hello Sunshine, Reid wrote about watch- ing Fleetwood Mac's 1997 perfor- mance of their song "Landslide" in the MTV special "The Dance" as research for the novel, fixated on "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 be- tween real life and performance can get blurred, about how singing about old wounds might keep them fresh." Reid also drew inspiration from more recent former bandmates. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Reid shared that she was fascinated with the folk duo the Civil Wars, who abruptly split up in 2014 after releasing two albums together. "They wrote these in- credibly romantic and intimate songs, and they would perform them so beautifully and so intense- ly," Reid explained, adding "they're both married to other people, and one night they just break up [the group]." Mystery and intrigue have fol- lowed the implosion of both bands, leaving listeners with less than the full story of their breakups. In the official trailer for "Daisy Jones & the Six," Daisy is sat down for a confessional interview, and speak- ing to someone beyond the cam- era, she says, "I know that I said that I would tell you everything, but how much of everything do you really want to know?" Ten epi- sodes exploring the behind-the- scenes drama of a group of talent- ed musicians doomed to split in a clash of egos provide fan service for what we will never know about our own favorite bands who've parted ways. "Daisy Jones & the Six" is exec- utive produced by "Big Little Lies" star Reese Witherspoon, whose production company Hello Sun- shine has been behind some of the most successful book-to-screen adaptations of the last decade, in- cluding 2014's "Gone Girl" and "Wild" and, more recently, 2022's "Where the Crawdads Sing." "The Morning Show" producer Lauren Levy Neustadter and "Rim of the World" (2019) producer Ben Men- delsohn also executive produce. Tune in for the first three epi- sodes of "Daisy Jones & the Six" when they drop Friday, March 3, on Prime Video, with new episodes re- leasing every Friday through March 24. Riley Keough in "Daisy Jones and The Six" Rock 'n romance: Prime premieres 'Daisy Jones & The Six' 2 | Cover story Grindstone Charlie's 1 x 4" Moore's Home Health 5 x 2"