Daisy Jones & The Six

A Novel

368 pages

English language

Published June 11, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-78633-151-9
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In 1979, Daisy Jones and The Six split up. Together, they had redefined the 70’s music scene, creating an iconic sound that rocked the world. Apart, they baffled a world that had hung on their every verse.

This book is an attempt to piece together a clear portrait of the band’s rise to fame and their abrupt and infamous split. The following oral history is a compilation of interviews, emails, transcripts, and lyrics, all pertaining to the personal and professional lives of the members of the band The Six and singer Daisy Jones.

While I have aimed for a comprehensive and exhaustive approach, I must acknowledge that full and complete accounts from all parties involved has proved impossible. Some people were easier to track down than others, some were more willing to talk than others, and some, unfortunately, have passed on.

All of which is to say that while this …

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unfurling like a VH1 Behind The Music episode, this was a nice little story about rock and roll that DIDN'T go where you expected it to. And and I'm so grateful that this was a romance that took the harder, less glamourous road of stability and resolve. As a plus, it also made me realize the depth and detail required to make a truly great record, and the so-obvious-now reasons that bands like The Lowest of the Low break-up just as they hit their stratospheric high.

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Subjects

  • Musicians, fiction
  • Fiction, women
  • Los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Fiction, historical