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Listening to the remastered edition of Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1978) was a blast from the past in more than one way -- among the voices there (which included David Essex and Justin Hayward when both were regular inhabitants of the pop/rock charts, and the late Phil Lynott, was Julie Covington. Even hearing her intoning the name "Nathaniel" in her dramatic sequences recalled the clear, clean strains of her work in the television series Rock Follies, and her hit version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina", 25 years earlier. And it was a reminder that, at one time, Covington was the queen of the musical/dramatic concept album, easily scaling the pop charts with her singles, and the first choice when music producers needed a female singer who could act. She was born in London in 1947, and although she did do a little acting in school (in works such as Giradoux's Elektra), she had no strong inclination toward a career as a performer -- rather, Covington intended to become an educato...