Michael Emile Telford Miller was born on 16 October 1937. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of “Emile Ford & the Checkmates” who had chart topping hit in late 1959 with What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For, a song originally written for a Broadway production in 1916. It went to number one in the UK, Norway and Australia.