A review by bookapotamus
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

5.0

If this was for real, I'd be scouring iTunes right now and feverishly downloading Daisy Jone & the Six albums. If this was for real, I'd be Google imaging every photo to plaster on my walls like a teenager, searching album cover art and photos of outfits that Daisy Jones wore while floating in a pool in a drunken stupor at a party. If this was for real, I'd be saying "does MTV even PLAY videos anymore??" while clicking through channels on TV to find their newest video or Behind the Music special. WHY IS THIS NOT FOR REAL?!?!?!

THIS is the exact story you want to read about your favorite band. It's the fly-on-the-wall voyeuristic exclusive that details the lives and loves, the partying and drugs, of your favorite 70's band. I want this private glimpse into the stories of the Stones, the Beatles, for Janis and Clapton... it's the grittiest, most exclusive look at the forming of the band The Six, and eventual collaboration with the provocative and talented Daisy Jones. Told in documentary form, you root and cheer and cry and ache for every single member of the band, their entourage, their families. You wish you could hear every song and rock out at every live performance.

Clashing personalities, conflicting goals, ego, drugs, and passion all fuel the fire of this insanely popular cult-worthy band and the riveting story of it's rise and eventual fall. It's a dreamy landscape of free-thinking, 60s/70s rock-and-roll icons at their height and glory - riding on tour buses, smoking joints, and lashing out on guitars as forms of rebellion and individuality. It's an addicting story that's both mood and mind-altering, of when music had real emotion and grit, soul and feelings... and true rock stars that bared it all.