![]() Gwen Guthrie, could be argued, served as the perfect source for inspiration to Larry’s musical ideas. Gwen Guthrie may have been the muse but the dancefloor had been his canvas. Music is something special, and for the original run time of 34 minutes, Larry Levan’s Padlock (Special Mixes) is an album of music displaying how much his ideas were based on intuition and tradition, processed and developed, in a very special moment in time. When Larry felt the sense of inspiration overcome him, and felt the urge to feel it (in his own way), it became ours. However, once it was sung by Gwen, and heard by Larry, it became his. Certainly, it was once Wally Badarou’s and Darryl Thompson’s. Was Gwen Guthrie’s music ever truly hers? Was it ever truly Larry’s? Certainly it was, for just a moment, Sly and Robbie’s. When he introduced music to the dancefloor he reimagined the music in a way the originals (possibly) never imagined. Life is something special, isn’t it? That’s something you can palpably feel in the music of Larry Levan.
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