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Characters in Daisy Jones & The Six

Plot Summary of Daisy Jones & The Six

Daisy Jones & The Six Ending Explained and Spoilers

Daisy Jones & The Six Movie: cast photos and more!

Coming soon: Differences Between the Book and the Movie!

Characters in Daisy Jones & The Six

Band members

Daisy Jones: wild child, songwriter

Billy Dunne: member of the Dunne Brothers, then The Six, then Daisy Jones and the Six

Graham Dunne: lead guitarist

Pete Loving: bassist

Warren Rhodes: drummer for The Six. Married Lisa Crowne after the band broke up.

Chuck Williams: original rhythm guitarist for the Six. Was drafted and is replaced by Eddie Loving.

Eddie Loving: Pete’s brother who steps in as guitarist after Chuck is drafted. (called Eddie Roundtree in the movie)

Karen Sirko: joins the Six as a keyboardist. Formerly in The Winters

Family and Colleagues of the Band

Camila Martinez Dunne: married to Billy Dunne

Rod Reyes: manager of The Six

Teddy Prince: producer for Runner Records

Artie Snyder: lead engineer for The Six

Rich Palentino: CEO at Runner Records

Hank Allen: Daisy’s manager in the early 70s

Niccolo “Nicky” Argento: Daisy’s husband

Freddie Mendoza: celebrity photographer

Jonah Berg: rock journalist who follows the band on tour

Other Musicians

Simone Jackson : disco star, briefly Daisy’s roommate. Becomes famous in 1974.

Wyatt Stone: lead singer of the Breeze, dated Daisy in her teens and she helped him with his lyrics

Jim Blade: lead singer of Mi Vida and Daisy’s boyfriend in the early 70s.

Rick Yates: heroin snorting rock singer who gets Billy into heroin

Mick Riva: hard partying rock star who shows up at Daisy’s house in 1977 and joins a party there. 

Lola LaCava: Daisy’s alias

Plot Summary of Daisy Jones & The Six

Daisy Jones & the Six is told in an epistolary format, as, in the present day, a reporter interviews members of the band, journalists, other musicians and more.

The timeline of the book spans the 1970s through the 2010s. At the end of the post, I’ll link to my master timeline of all Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books!

1965-1972

Daisy Jones grows up in L.A. She’s the child of artists who are focused on their work and don’t pay much attention to her. As a teen, she sneaks into bars and clubs. She has insomnia and loves to read.

Meanwhile, Billy Dunne and his brother Graham form a band and move to L.A. in the late 60s.

In 1969, Billy meets Camila in the hotel where he and his band are playing a a wedding.

1972-1974

Daisy starts writing songs. In 1972, she’s invited onstage by her then boyfriend, Jim Blades, to sing with him. She’s seeing a lot of guys, living at Chateau Marmont, getting free designer clothes, thinking about making a demo.

Daisy signs with Runner Records but is more interested in songwriting. She begins to experiment with drugs.

Meanwhile, The Six is recording their debut album and living together in a house in Topanga Canyon. There’s a bit of tension between Billy and the rest of the group over the direction of the album. The group experiments with mescaline and peyote.

The debut album of The Six is released.

In 1973 Camila finds out she’s pregnant and she and Billy get married. The band heads out on tour, without Camila, and they drink heavily, do drugs, and sleep with fans. 

Camila comes to surprise Billy and walks in on him with a girl. She tells him to straighten himself out before the baby comes. Their daughter Julia is born in November 1973. 

In early 1974, Billy spends two months in rehab at Camila’s insistence.

1974-1975

Daisy refuses to cut the album the record executives want, putting her in breach of contract with Runner Records. She wants to record her own songs, but Teddy Prince tells her that none of her songs are ready to record.

Daisy finally agrees to make the record they want, and her debut album, First, is released in early 1975.

1975-1976

Billy is writing songs for a new album. Rich Palentino doesn’t feel like any of the songs are hit singles. Teddy wants to make one of the songs, Honeycomb, a duet sung by Billy and Daisy.

Billy is annoyed that Daisy changes his lyrics.  Billy’s version of the lyrics is a promise to Camila for the future, Daisy’s version turns promises into uncertainty. 

Daisy’s version of Honeycomb is a hit, but the band tours and performs without inviting her. 

1976-1977

The Six releases SevenEightNine in 1976. Daisy is in a club where The Six is performing and she and Billy sing their duet.

Daisy is the opening act for The Six’s World Tour, Numbers, in 1976. Camila, pregnant with twins, and Julia come along.

Daisy is doing a lot of cocaine balanced out with sleeping pills. Billy struggles to stay sober. Hank, her manager, supplies her with drugs.

Graham and Karen start a relationship. Daisy fights with Hank and her band walks out. Eddie and Billy are also feuding.

Daisy Makes a Move

Daisy and Billy are getting along better. She invites him to her room, but he declines. 

Jonah Berg, a journalist, writes a Rolling Stone article saying that Daisy is integral to The Six. The band discusses letting Daisy join them. They decide to ask if she’ll make an album with them. Daisy elated and high on cocaine, breaks into her parent’s house.

Billy and Camila’s twins, Susana and Maria, are born. Graham moves in with Karen. The Six and Daisy start work on their album, but there’s disagreement about how rock or how pop the album should be. Teddy renames the group Daisy Jones & the Six.

1977-1978

In August 1977, the band starts recording Aurora. Billy has written twelve songs and Daisy has a notebook full of ideas. 

The group does agree to center the album around Billy’s song, Aurora. But Daisy tells Billy she’s not recording an entire album about Camila. She also tells him that Wyatt Stone stole her song.

Billy and Daisy argue about her substance abuse issues and they try to write together. Daisy has strong concepts and imagery, and Billy is better at song structure.

Eddie and Karen want a say as well, and there is conflict.

Crossover character Mick Riva

The group is hanging out at Daisy’s cottage at Chateau Marmont, recording and hanging out. Mick Riva shows up. He’s in his forties, married multiple times, with five kids and still hard-partying. 

The night gets crazier and more alcohol and drug-filled. Mick is making out with underage groupies. Simone shows up. 

Daisy jumps into the pool, floating in an expensive caftan and someone takes an iconic photo of her. She steps on broken glass and both Simone and Billy are concerned about her self-destructiveness. 

Billy leaves and writes a song, Impossible Woman. The next day, Daisy tries to sing it but her lack of training gets her frustrated. Billy encourages her and she’s able to sing it.

Camila confides in Karen about how hard it is to shoulder all the parenting, and Karen confides in Camila about Graham. Camila is worried that Karen will break Graham’s heart.

Daisy and Billy keep writing songs. Eddie feels bitter that there’s no way for him to collaborate.  The band gets more concerned about Daisy’s substance abuse.

Daisy and Billy: Will They or Won’t They?

One night while writing, Daisy tries to kiss Billy, but he pulls away. Camila overhears Billy on the phone telling Graham that Daisy has got to go.

Daisy writes a song, “Regret Me,” that Billy refuses to record but the rest of the band outvotes him.

The cover of the new album, Aurora, features only Daisy and Billy. The rest of the band notices.

The album is finished. Daisy heads to Thailand. She meets Niccolo Argento, who takes her to Italy and convinces her to get married.

1978: The Interview and Aurora

The band gets together to listen to the album. Eddie and Karen upset that most of their contributions got cut. It’s also time to do press and a tour. 

Simone drags Daisy back to L.A. Everyone is concerned that Nicky not only enables but encourages Daisy’s drug use. Niccolo tells Billy to stay away from Daisy.

Jonah Berg interviews Daisy and she tells him about her complicated relationship with Billy. She also tells him that Billy cheated on Camila, went to rehab for heroin addiction, and missed the birth of his daughter. 

Billy begs Jonah not to print that and, in return, offers the story that he and Daisy despise each other. He also says that Daisy’s talent is wasted on her.

In June 1978, the Aurora album comes out.

1978-1979: A Tour and a Breakup

The band tours on two buses, a white bus with Daisy and Niccolo on it and a blue one with Billy. After each performance, Billy goes back to his hotel room and the band goes out to party. 

Daisy fell asleep smoking and set hotel rooms on fire. Billy and Camila buy a huge house in Malibu.

Pete marries his girlfriend Jenny and quits the band.  

Nicky and Daisy take a brief trip to Italy, on which accuses Daisy of sleeping with Billy. They have a violent argument and Daisy wakes up in the shower.

Nicky says he thought she might have OD’d. Daisy can’t believe he didn’t call for help and leaves him to fly back to the states, asking the hotel concierge to leave him a message that she wants a divorce.

“Turn it Off” wins record of the year at the Grammys.

During the tour, Karen found out she was pregnant. She told Camila she doesn’t want a baby, and then told Graham. They have a huge argument over what to do, with Graham telling her to think it over. 

Daisy Admits She’s in Love With Billy

Billy and Daisy’s relationship improves. Daisy realizes she is in love with Billy. He is also very drawn to her but decides Camila and his family are more important to him.

Daisy asks Billy to help her get sober, and he is trying to talk her into rehab, when Teddy Prince dies of a heart attack.

Daisy decides against rehab and the band goes back out on the road to distract themselves from their sadness. Karen and Graham argue again about the pregnancy, with Karen asking him if he intends to quit the band and raise the baby.

Daisy feels tortured to have to sing with the man she’s in love with and can’t have. Billy feels he can’t make another album without Teddy.

Camila takes Karen to a clinic for an abortion.

July 1979: Chicago

Daisy sings the lyrics to Honeycomb the way Billy wrote them, as a gesture that she is giving him up. That he is Camila’s.

Graham finds out about Karen’s abortion. Billy doesn’t know what to do about Daisy and Camila. He goes to the hotel bar and orders a tequila. A fan comes up to him.

Daisy goes to her room but is high and can’t find her key.

Daisy Jones & The Six Ending and Spoilers

The Interviewer is Revealed

The interviewer of the book intrudes and we realize that Billy’s daughter Julia is the one conducting all the interviews. It’s unclear if this happens before or after Camila dies, but Julia says in the prologue that the interviews took eight years. 

Julia remembers being five years old and recalls Camila opening the door for Daisy. 

Daisy says Camila helped her inside and got her water. She then told Daisy that although she knows Billy loves Daisy, he would never leave his family.

Camila says that she wants Daisy to be happy and that to do that, Daisy needs to leave the band. She tells Daisy that her favorite song by the band is A Hope Like You, the song that Daisy wrote, and that she is rooting for her to succeed.

Billy drinks the tequila.

Daisy Leaves for Good

The next morning, Daisy is gone. Graham and Karen aren’t speaking to each other. Billy announces he needs a break from touring. Pete is leaving. Eddie doesn’t like working with Billy.

Daisy tells Julia that she left the band because Camila asked her to. And that itw as the best thing she ever did. And that she’s so sorry that Camila died.

What Happened to the band after 1979?

Camila died in 2012 at age sixty-three of heart failure caused by lupus.

Daisy went to rehab, adopted kids, wrote books and started a charity.

Pete, Graham, and Warren all got married and had kids. Eddie is a record producer.

Simone had a daughter, Trina, who is a famous musician.

Karen played in different bands and retired in the 90s.

Billy became a songwriter. He and Camila built their dream house in North Carolina.

November 2012

Camila sent an email to her daughters saying after she dies, to please tell Billy to get in touch with Daisy. She says that he and Daisy owe her a song.

Daisy Jones & The Six Movie News

Three of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books (that we know of) have been optioned: Daisy Jones & The Six for Amazon, The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hugo for Netflix, and Malibu Rising for Hulu.

The Daisy Jones & The Six series is the closest to completion.

What we know:

It’s a thirteen episode series.

It’s a collaboration of Hello Sunshine and Amazon Studios

The pandemic shut the production down in 2020 for a year and half but filming re-started in fall 2021 and was completed in March 2022.

Here’s the main cast:

Thanks for reading. Let’s discuss the book (and the movie) in the comments! Tell me what you thought about Daisy, Daisy and Billy’s doomed romance (but a second chance at love? Did they grab it?)

Also please check out my post on The Fictional World of Taylor Jenkins Reid. How do the books connect? What are the crossover characters? This post tells all!

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