She’s sold over 100 million records in more than six decades with 80 singles including Walk On By and I Say A Little Prayer, winning six Grammys along the way including the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now 83, Dionne Warwick is in the UK for her Don’t Make Me Over tour beginning tonight at The Glasshouse in Gateshead. My dad, in the first years of my career, put me on a budget and made me stick to it. He was the only man in my life who ever looked after me financially. It was difficult when I was married because I was the one earning the big money and a man doesn’t like the woman to be the breadwinner. Well, we called it an allowance. When I was six, my weekly allowance was a quarter which was a lot of money to me. A bar of candy was five cents so I could buy five of them; a comic cost 10 cents. At 11, I had my first babysitting job – three little kids on my block – at 75 cents an hour. If I did four hours, that was three dollars. I was rich! But I didn’t spend it. I...