In the Sixties they did all those wonderful songs like New York Mine Disaster and Words and then in the Seventies

In the Sixties they did all those wonderful songs like "New York Mine Disaster" and "Words", and then in the Seventies they were sort of soul at first, and then disco. And then they came back in the Eighties yet again.Chris said, "It's obvious, do the dance floor from Saturday Night Fever" - and I thought it was a brilliant idea, but I couldn't think how you would do it. Then about 10 days ago, I happened to bump into Brian Eno in a restaurant and he immediately worked out how you could do it.So the next day I had to get up and find a video of Saturday Night Fever. Then I drew up a plan, took it to Brian's office and some people he knows made it - in fact he had a hand in making it. I felt rather guilty that we weren't making it.I realised The Bee Gees are celebrating 30 years this year, so maybe their record company will pay lots of money for it.Lou ReedOrnette Coleman'ODE - EAU D'ORNETTE', A SCENT MIXED BY THE SINGERI love Ornette Coleman, his music resonates in my mind, my body and soul, and has done for a number of years. I constantly find myself humming melodies and it turns out it's Ornette Coleman. I love his harmonies; I love the work with Don Cherry and Charlie Hayden, which is not to say I don't like his latest work, but I've been enormously affected most of my life by his early work.

I think it's incredibly beautiful and pure.I like to make scents, it's something I was interested in doing. I'll tell you my recipe for eau d'Ornette: you get a large boiling vat and put a goat in it, two buckets of blood and three flowers from Central Park, and stir it. Then there are some secret ingredients from New York that I can't tell you about. I would not go very far in commenting on my talents in that direction.I can't describe ODE, because I sent the only batch to London - there really is only one bottle I made a second batch, but it was a little off.

I'm not good enough to make a large amount, because I'm doing it by hand and you have to be really careful. I'm a little loose with the recipe - which is part of the fun; it doesn't always work out.I think whoever buys this should give it to a friend. You could keep the empty bottle (with graphics by Laurie Anderson) as a museum piece, if you wanted to do such a thing, but I think you should wear it, preferably in bed, with your very, very, very best friend That's what I would do. I think it's a very romantic smelling piece myself; it's not citrusy, it's in the other direction, dark and spicy and leather and tobacco and gasoline ...If people would like to order the perfume from me it's pounds 1m, in advance. But with the British economy being what it is, what would pounds 1m even be worth any more? You can't even support two princesses ..."Musical Milestones will be auctioned at a dinner in aid of War Child on Tuesday 4 February. Tickets, priced pounds 120, are available from 0171-727 8656.

The works will be on show to the public from Thursday 30 January to Monday 4 February at the Lichfield Studios, 133 Oxford Gardens, London W10, from 10am to 5pm; and from Thursday 6 February to Sunday 16 February, 10am to 7pm, at 'The Economist', 25 St James Street, London SW1.. Chris Evans and Tina Ritchie In an article about Chris Evans ("Ginger snaps", 22 January), it was suggested that Tina Ritchie had said, on Chris Evans's radio show, that she "didn't like Chinese people". We are happy to point out that Tina Ritchie did not in fact say this, and that she is not "a weather girl", but a Radio 1 newsreader.. Debbie is, in many ways, a typical 11-year-old. Slim, with shoulder- length dark hair, she's lively, assertive and demanding. She loves music - she tinkers on the keyboards, though she has passed no exams -and there is little she likes better than to dance, particularly to the Spice Girls.

And when she's on her own, she'll be busy playing with her Nintendo machine. But her tale differs from the average girl of her age because she can't even remember how many homes she has had in the past few years, since she was taken into care when she was aged five Her mother is dead and her father's whereabouts are unknown. This is not a tale about the horrors of children's homes. Debbie lives in a residential unit which she likes and where she wants to stay. Her story is about being let down by those who are supposed to offer an oasis of stability in the state child care system - foster parents. For five years she was repeatedly moved between foster homes, a bewildering experience which has destroyed any faith she had in finding a stable family which might have supported her through her teenage years. As Debbie speaks, she racks her memory to recall the sequence of families It started with being placed in emergency foster care. "They were really kind and friendly." But after a few days she had to move on.