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A family Easter egg! Riley Keough paid homage to her late grandfather, Elvis Presley, in Daisy Jones & the Six.
In the second episode of the Amazon Prime series, Keough’s character, Daisy, dons a red-patterned guitar strap as she takes the stage. The musical accessory has a red base and a vibrant paisley-style pattern.
The one Daisy uses looks very similar to the strap the King of Rock ‘n Roll wore during his 1968 Comeback special. Multiple outlets reported the strap was indeed a replica of the one Elvis famously wore.
The guitar strap itself is iconic in music history. Along with Elvis rocking the accessory, Jimi Hendrix also used a strap with the same pattern throughout his career.
While Keough, 33, honored her grandfather, she also couldn’t help but add some of her own flair to her character’s accessory choices.
“I do have a fun fact that Daisy’s guitar is my guitar,” she revealed to Buzzfeed in March. “It was my personal guitar and I wanted to use it in the show.”
The series, which is based on the best-selling Taylor Jenkins Reid novel of the same name, tells the story of a fictional band in the 1970s as they navigate their rise and fall in the music industry. Keough stars as the lead and is joined by Sam Claflin, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse, Sebastian Chacon and Suki Waterhouse.
In February, the Zola star — who is the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley — opened up about continuing her family’s musical legacy onscreen.
“I certainly wouldn’t put that pressure on it. I don’t know if there is continuing my grandfather’s legacy, it’s its own sort of thing to me. But it was a really fun experience for me,” Keough said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’m
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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. When Daisy Jones first performs at the famed Troubadour in the second episode of Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones & The Six,” she’s not yet a rock star. The titular character, played by Riley Keough, steps onto the low-lit stage with an acoustic guitar awkwardly strapped around her shoulders, her hair hastily done up in prairie braids, her frizz the telltale sign of a broke artist without the time or money to care about aesthetics.
Look at Eddie and Camila now. Prime Video’s Daisy Jones & The Six adaptation has made a few changes, but perhaps the biggest rewrite is revealed in episode 6, which dropped on Thursday, March 9.
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Amazon series “Daisy Jones & the Six” and fans were quick to notice that she wears a patterned red guitar strap in one scene that strongly resembles the one 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 a crowd, which is when the guitar strap is spotted.Reps for the show confirmed to People that while the guitar strap is not the exact same one Keough’s grandfather wore, it is indeed a replica called the New Yorker/the Woodstock model made by the Ace Strap company.the little easter egg of elvis presley's guitar strap being used by daisy jones, aka riley keough, aka his granddaughter, that has really sent me over the edge with the attention to detail in daisy jones and the six pic.twitter.com/maby4vACWu“The little easter egg of Elvis Presley’s guitar strap being used by daisy jones, aka Riley Keough, aka his granddaughter, that has really sent me over the edge with the attention to detail in daisy jones and the six,” Buzzfeed’s senior TV editor Nora Dominick spotted.“I spent all three episodes trying to find an Elvis easter egg! Glad someone tweeted it!” someone wrote.Some people even admitted that this moment was how they found out about Keough’s rock ‘n roll lineage.“This is literally how I learned that she’s Elvis’ granddaughter.
Riley Keough paid homage to her grandfather, Elvis Presley, during an episode of. Eagle-eyed fans noticed it during a scene in episode two, titled «I'll Take You There,» when Keough's character, Daisy, takes the stage to perform.In the scene, Daisy wears a red guitar strap similar to the one Elvis wore during his 1968 Comeback special. follows the rise and fall of a rock band in the '70s — fronted by Daisy and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), who come together by chance, and abruptly end following a run of success.
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Riley Keough is following in her late mother, Lisa Marie Presley‘s, footsteps and giving Austin Butler her seal of approval. The 33-year-old “Daisy Jones & the Six” star praised Butler’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of her late grandfather, Elvis Presley, in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, “Elvis”, during an appearance on “Live With Kelly and Ryan”.