Long and Winding Road

Jonathan Gould’s coffee is gone, but one question remains. How does the professional drummer rate Ringo Starr, often reviled as “the luckiest man in show business”? Gould smiles indulgently. “What more would you want?” he asks. “Ringo never burdened the music with the sound of a whole lot of drumming going on. He did what he needed to do and no more. That’s true of writing, too. That’s true of everything. That’s what it means to be good.”