"The Memory Remains" was the lead single from Metallica's seventh studio album. It is about a celebrity fading into obscurity and it's driving her mad.
For the haunting bridge they brought in 60s swing scene performer Marianne Faithfull who once famously dated Mick Jagger. She recalls in an interview with Billboard Magazine, "I was in Ireland, quietly living my beautiful life, and suddenly the phone rang and this voice said, 'Hello, Marianne Faithfull? This is Lars from Metallica,'" she said. "And then the story unfolded that what they wanted was to fly to Dublin and to record me for 'The Memory Remains' and put me on the song and that's what they did. And I made great friends with them of course and we stayed in touch."
She is featured in the video.