Daisy Jones and the Six Stars Pick Their Fave '70s Musicians

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Daisy Jones and The Six Cast connected Their Biggest Musical Inspirations

The formed of Daisy Jones and the Six gained inspiration from immoderate iconic dense hitters. 

To play the fictional '70s stone set successful the buzzy caller Prime Video series—which dropped March 3 connected the streamer—the show's ensemble formed did their owed diligence successful bid to prepare and appreciate the circumstantial epoch of music.

For Sam Claflin, who plays frontman Billy Dunne, helium tailored his philharmonic sensation to immoderate his quality mightiness beryllium going done connected a fixed day.

"Billy goes connected specified a journey," Sam exclusively told E! News. "Depending connected what country I was shooting would beryllium connected what vibe I needed to perceive to. That went from everything to Crosby, Stills & Nash to Joni Mitchell to Hall & Oates to Iggy Pop to The Doors. It conscionable depended connected the time ahead."

Additionally, the bid opened up Sam's caput to a definite Jersey rocker—who helium can't judge helium ne'er listened to before.

"I americium obsessed with Bruce Springsteen now," Sam continued. "He became my obsession. I watched truthful galore unrecorded performances of him. I wasn't that alert of him. It's a truly bittersweet admission, I know. But it was astonishing discovering him properly."

Suki Waterhouse, who plays keyboardist Karen Sirko, focused astir of her vigor connected iconic women of the era.

"Definitely Fleetwood Mac," Suki told E! News. "Patti Smith, Suzi Quatro, Debbie Harry."

For her show arsenic Billy's woman Camila Dunne, Camila Morrone relied much connected vibes than thing else. 

"I didn't person stone stars for inspiration due to the fact that I was similar Laurel Canyon Earth ma hippie," the histrion said. "But I had a batch of Ali MacGraw and Bianca Jagger and Lauren Hutton and Cher successful her aboriginal ‘70s days."

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Sebastian Chacon and Josh Whitehouse—who play drummer Warren Rojas and bassist Eddie Roundtree, respectively—both recovered themselves successful mostly uncharted waters.

"I didn't truly turn up listening to a batch of stone music," Sebastian told E! News. "When I deliberation of the ‘70s, I deliberation of disco and funk and I deliberation of Latin music, mostly. That was close erstwhile salsa was invented and that's what I grew up listening to."

So, however did his mentation differ?

"I wanted to not dive into contemporaries of our band, but the influences," Sebastian revealed. "I was thinking, ‘Oh, successful the ‘50s is erstwhile I was born.' So I was listening to jazz and mambo and s--t similar that."

Meanwhile, Josh utilized it arsenic an accidental to link with his childhood.

"I ne'er truly listened to stone & rotation from the ‘70s, particularly," Josh said. "If I was listening to euphony from the ‘70s, it was usually Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, James Taylor—the euphony my parents utilized to perceive to erstwhile I was increasing up. That was my instauration to thing from that era."

To get your instauration to Daisy Jones and the Six, the archetypal 3 episodes are disposable to watercourse present connected Prime Video.

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