[6] After returning to civilian life, MacBeth found employment as a travelling salesman promoting Andrews Liver Salts.
[2] During weekends, MacBeth started singing in local clubs, and he appeared on The Carroll Levis Discovery Show,[7] at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.
[2] This exposure led to him making a number of appearances on Tyne Tees Television, who suggested he was billed as 'David North',[7][2] when he was a regular performer on the station's The One O'Clock Show.
Pye Records suggested renaming him Scott Weston, but MacBeth responded, "I said it sounded like a biscuit company, so they asked me what my real name was...
[9] The same year, MacBeth appeared on Associated Television programmes, Disc Break and Music Shop plus Granada's The Song Parade.
In July that year he switched to Piccadilly Records, who released his version of Bobby Vinton's US number one hit, "Roses Are Red (My Love)".
Also on the bill were Gerry and the Pacemakers, Louise Cordet, Tony Marsh, Terry Young Six, Erkey Grant and Ian Crawford.
In May 2003, MacBeth gave a one-off performance in Edinburgh, backed by a 35-piece orchestra at a tribute concert for Johnny Keating, who was born in the city.