“Daisy Jones & the Six” – and a little Elvis.
Riley Keough brought the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll into the world of her fictional 1970s band.
Keough, 33, stars as Daisy Jones in the new Amazon series “Daisy Jones & the Six” and fans quickly noticed that in one scene she wears a patterned red guitar strap that closely resembles her grandfather Elvis Presley in his “’68 Comeback Special” on NBC.
The scene in the second episode shows Keough performing a song called “Two Against Three” at the Troubadour in Los Angeles after she musters up the courage to perform in front of an audience, which is when the guitar strap is seen.
Representatives for the show attached to People that while the guitar strap is not the exact same one that Keough’s grandfather wore, it is indeed a replica called the New Yorker/Woodstock model made by the Ace Strap company.
“The little Elvis Presley guitar strap Easter egg used by Daisy Jones, aka Riley Keough, aka his granddaughter, that really sent me over the edge with the attention to detail in Daisy Jones and the Six,” Buzzfeed’s senior TV editor Nora Dominick saw it.
“I spent all three episodes trying to find an Elvis Easter egg! Glad someone tweeted it! someone wrote.
Some people even admitted that they discovered Keough’s rock and roll lineage at this time.
“This is literally how I found out she is Elvis’ granddaughter. holy s–t,” someone exclaimed.
But Keough’s family lineage to Elvis “never even came up” with the show’s creators when they cast her.
“She had her reps call us and say, ‘Riley has read this book and she thinks she was born to play this part.’ It didn’t even occur to us,” co-creator Scott Neustadter (“The Fault in Our Stars”) told The Post last month, referring to the popular novel of the same name the show is based on.
“And we said, ‘Okay, that’s cool.’ We talked to her and after half an hour we were like, ‘Yeah, she was [born to play the part]!’ But also with her [family] background, she told us, ‘I have to be honest with you and tell you that I’ve never sung before. I sometimes sing in the shower. I don’t think it’s good.’ So that was a wild card for us.”
Keough has appeared in other works such as ‘Max Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Zola’, but ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ is the first time she shows her singing.
Written by Taylor Jenkins Reid, “Daisy Jones & the Six” follows the rise and fall of a band inspired by Fleetwood Mac through the scenes of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in 1970s Los Angeles. Rising to the top, frontman Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin, “The Hunger Games”) and his band join forces with talented but troubled singer/songwriter Daisy Jones.
The show also stars Camila Morrone as Camila Dunne and Suki Waterhouse as Karen Sirko.
Both Keough and Claflin sing songs on screen as the show follows the band recording and touring the (fictional) hit album of the decade.
But the fictional band actually released the fictional album – and Daisy Jones & the Six became the first fictional band to top the iTunes charts with the release of their first album, “Aurora.”
“Aurora” topped the iTunes charts when it was released on March 2 – a day before the series premiered the first three episodes.
The first three episodes of the limited series are currently streaming on Amazon Prime, with episodes airing every Friday for four weeks.
