“The Thing You Must Remember Is That I'm The Number One John Lennon Fan. I Love Him To This Day And

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) 2.05 – Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

So there I am, idly skimming a 2015 issue of Uncut and reading this list of shit Paul has around when suddenly… 

The most eye-catching item, though, is a Lennon calendar hanging on the wall; the image for ‘July’ showing Paul’s former bandmate during his August, 1972 Madison Square Garden show. 

Q: Did you see The Beatles differently from John Lennon? Paul: Hmm. I don’t think so. We all had a common vision, at least in the early days. Then everyone seemed to think that we wanted to go in different directions. But I’m not even sure that’s true. The thing about me and John is that we were different, but we weren’t that different. I think Linda put her finger on it when she said me and John were like mirror images of each other. Even down to how we started writing together, facing each other, eyeball to eyeball, exactly like looking in the mirror. That’s how songs like ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand" were written. Q: You were like two sides of the same person? Paul: Well said. But the sides would switch. On the surface, I was very easy-going, always accommodating. That came easy to me. That’s how I’d been brought up. But, at certain times, I would very much be the hard man of the duo. At certain moments, I could bite. But that would be when no one outside the group was watching. John would allow me to take that role because it enabled him to drop his guard and be vulnerable. On the surface, he was this hard, witty guy, always on hand with a cutting witticism. He appeared caustic, even cruel at times. But really he was very soft. John was very insecure. He carried a lot of that from his upbringing, what with his father leaving when he was five. Then, of course, we’d both lost our mothers so we had that in common. Ultimately, we were equals. All The Beatles were equals. If things got too deep, Ringo would crack a one-liner and that kept us on a level. If things were getting too sentimental, John would harden it up. If John was getting too hostile, I’d soften it down. Then George was always on hand with his own kind of unique wisdom.

Uncut Magazine, July 2004 (via mclennonwasreal)

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.06 "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light"

Interview with the Vampire | 2.05

Interview with the Vampire | 2.07

“Even when they weren’t in the same room, they were writing Lennon-McCartney songs. Even after they broke up, they kept bouncing songwriting ideas off each other, aiming answer records at each other. They gave each other no peace. That friendship followed them around their whole lives. I love the story John’s limo driver tells — it’s 1980, John is in the back of the car, listening to the radio, really enjoying this new hit song called “Coming Up,” wondering who the singer is. Then suddenly he says, “Fuck a pig, it’s Paul.” They couldn’t get away from each other.”

— Dreaming the Beatles: An Interview with Rob Sheffield

I love this so much

John was scared. We were all pretty scared. – Paul McCartney One night during that tour on a show in the South somewhere somebody let off a firecracker while we were on stage. There had been threats to shoot us, the Klan were burning Beatle records outside and a lot of the crew-cut kids were joining in with them. Somebody let off a firecracker and every one of us – I think it’s on film – look at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.– John Lennon

There's a reason why Armand became my favorite character in QotD during the Devil's Minion chapter. Because for once, we were seeing Armand for who he is and not as the villain in someone else's story. For once, we truly see him through Daniel's eyes. Because Daniel knows Armand's faults. He knows his good qualities, too. He has reasons to both love him and despise him. He adores him, yet he is beyond frustrated with him for not giving him what he wants and making him a vampire because he wants to be with him forever. Daniel's perspective on Armand is probably one of the least biased in the series despite the fact that this is a series full of unreliable narrators. No one portrays Armand as more of himself than Daniel. Not Lestat, Louis, Marius, or even Armand himself. Daniel sees Armand in all his facets. The gentle and thoughtful young man. The ghastly and loathsome creature that has devoured a million lives. The absolute weirdo who becomes obsessed with blenders and other human technology and watches Bladerunner over and over again. The immortal idiot who breaks into his room in the middle of the night demanding he call Paris. The guy who takes care of him and drags him to art shows and hunts pirates and kills drug smugglers to buy the two of them a literal island. Armand's no longer the charming and manipulative vampire who Louis blames for Claudia's death. He's no longer the deranged yet beautiful cultist Lestat met. He's no longer Marius's tragic, Botticelli angel. He's just Armand. Just a weird little guy with a fascination with blenders who wants to be loved but is not well versed in the language of romance and who loves Daniel and would rather die than see him dead but would also rather die than make him a vampire because he doesn't want to damn him. Just Armand.