Making the Band: How Daisy Jones & the Six Came to Life
Tony Berg, a music industry veteran with the kind of awe-inspiring, star-packed résumé that could fill a tome, remembers exactly what he thought the first time he met Riley Keough and Sam Claflin, the two leads of Daisy Jones & the Six.
“My first impression was, ‘Uh-oh,’” Berg tells The Daily Beast with a laugh. “Neither of them was a professional singer, and they were going to be asked to perform as singers in what was the biggest band in the world. Now, that is daunting.”
Indeed, the new Prime Video series was tasked not only with bringing Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling 2019 novel to the screen, but also giving life to the fictional, chart-topping ’70s rock band Daisy Jones & the Six. In the book, the band—fronted by Daisy (Keough) and Billy Dunne (Claflin)—rises to superstardom after releasing their 1976 magnum opus, Aurora. Fans of the book have long tried to imagine what songs like “Regret Me” and “Aurora” would sound like, and now, they can actually hear them, as the team behind the series has released a real, physical version of the 11-track album via Atlantic Records.