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Daisy Jones & The Six

A Novel

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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    Mar 2019, 368 pages

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    Feb 2020, 384 pages

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A New York Times bestseller. A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.

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.

The Groupie
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...

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  1. This book is written in an oral history format. Why do you think the author chose to structure the book this way? How does this approach affect your reading experience?
  2. At one point Daisy says, "I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man's great idea... . I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse." How does her experience of being used by others contribute to the decisions she makes when she joins The Six?
  3. Why do you think Billy has such a strong need to control the group, both early on when they are simply the Dunne Brothers and later when they become Daisy Jones & The Six?
  4. There are two sets of brothers in The Six: Eddie and Pete Loving, and Billy and Graham Dunne. How do these sibling relationships ...
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Reid's characters are layered and endlessly fascinating, prompting deep emotional investment from the reader. The book is alive with historical detail, creating a vibrant, eclectic atmosphere of 1970s rock 'n' roll. Those who remember the culture of this era of music well will be especially delighted with this trip down memory lane...continued

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Associated Press
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.

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

Entertainment Weekly
Wildly delicious.

HelloGiggles
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.

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

PopSugar
Prepare to fall for Taylor Jenkins Reid's newest novel, Daisy Jones & The Six.

PopSugar
Prepare to fall for Taylor Jenkins Reid's newest novel, Daisy Jones & The Six.

Romper
Evocative ... brilliant.

The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
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.'

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

Booklist (starred review)
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.

Publishers Weekly (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.

Author Blurb Reese Witherspoon
I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart.

Reader Reviews

Leslie

Surprise punch
A trip back 50 years to the LA music scene sounds like a great adventure with all the hot 70s music groups. And it was that, and more. Weaving my way through the story I was focusing on keeping the characters and relationships straight. I was not ...   Read More
techeditor

I liked this in spite of its fornat
DAISY JONES & THE SIX may take some getting used to at first. It is not in a novel's usual format. Taylor Jenkins Reid's intention was to write a novel that comes across as a documentary. But understand: this is a novel, fiction. It took me about...   Read More

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The History of the Sunset Strip

The Sunset Strip in 1964Titular character Daisy Jones from Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Daisy Jones & The Six comes of age in the 1970s, visiting rock clubs on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. This 1.6 mile stretch of music venues, nightclubs, restaurants and retail stores on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard has a long, fascinating history full of intrigue, and remains one of L.A.'s most prominent attractions.

In the 1920s and 30s, stars like Lana Turner, Fred Astaire and Jean Harlow were frequent visitors to the Strip's Players Club and Cafe Trocadero. The latter was originally a speakeasy called Cafe La Boheme during Prohibition, reopening as Trocadero in 1934. The club kept up the spirit of its original illicit iteration with an illegal gambling ring operating in...

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