Emile Ford obituary

Singer who topped the charts with What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?The UK’s first No 1 hit of the 1960s was What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? by Emile Ford and the Checkmates. Ford, who has died aged 78, was the first black British male singer to top the charts, and went on to a career as an acoustics engineer.He was born in Castries, St Lucia, into one of the island’s leading families. His father, Frederick Miller, was a local politician who became the isla