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Daisy's best friend, played by Nabiyah Be, gets more of a spotlight in the TV series than in the book. A rising disco star, it's easy to imagine her being inspired by plenty of the female disco icons of the 1970s.
For Reid's part, though, she went straight to the top when taking inspiration for Simone, telling The Guardian that Simone is "very loosely based on Donna Summer." Like Simone, Summer started building her career in the '60s before hitting it big when the '70s rolled around.
"Simone was a big mixture of the three big disco names — Donna Summers, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan — but also lesser-known names and background vocalists that were fundamental to the genre like Linda Clifford, Claudia Lennear," Be told Insider. "You can hear them in all the big bands, you know, you can hear them behind The Rolling Stones."