Billy, meanwhile, assembles little brother Graham (Will Harrison) and Graham’s high school classmates Eddie and Warren into a band that he hopes will provide a way to escape Pittsburgh and some dark family memories of their own. Daisy grows up in Los Angeles feeling hopelessly alone in the home of her wealthy but unloving parents, and as an adult is used by men, with only closeted disco singer Simone (Nabiyah Be) seeing her as a person. The 10-episode miniseries has some excellent performances - particularly by Claflin and by Riley Keough, as Daisy - and other virtues beyond that, as it traces the intertwined lives of the two halves of its title. Like Eddie doing basic arithmetic, audiences may find that it’s hard to look at this TV version of Reid’s story without feeling like something is missing. But drummer Warren (Sebastian Chacon) argues that “the Five” would sound like too many other groups, including the Dave Clark Five and the Jackson 5. Bass player Eddie (Josh Whitehouse) rightly points out that people could find this inconsistency confusing. The name only arises because a sixth person - Camila ( Camila Morrone), wife of frontman Billy ( Sam Claflin) - is present during the brainstorm session. In Amazon Prime’s adaptation, the pre-Daisy incarnation of the band has one fewer member.

The surviving musicians disagree on specifics, but all concur that it had to do with there being six people in the group at the time. In Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel Daisy Jones & the Six, an oral history of a fictional Seventies rock band that imploded at the height of its fame, we get conflicting accounts of how the band became known as the Six before the troubled Daisy joined as the seventh member.

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