WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT THE RELATED SONG BY METALLICA

The Memory Remains" is a song by Metallica from their 1997 album ReLoad. It was first performed live in a "jam" version on July 2, 1996.[1] The song is about a once-great, now forgotten celebrity who is desperate to regain her fame but is driven half-mad with her obscurity. It may be a reference to the film Sunset Boulevard.
The song was the first single from the album. It was written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich and featured British singer/actress Marianne Faithfull as a guest vocalist. When played live, the band encourages the fans to sing Marianne's parts. It also contains lines spoken by Marianne taken from the Marilyn Monroe movie The Misfits ("Say yes... at least say hello...").
Contents[hide]
1 Other versions
1.1 Covers
2 Chart performance
3 Music video
4 Track listing
5 References
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[edit] Other versions
The song was performed on the December 6, 1997 edition of Saturday Night Live when Metallica was the musical guest along with Faithfull. It was later performed with the San Francisco Symphony (conducted by Michael Kamen) on S&M.

[edit] Covers
Several bands have covered the song, including The Kovenant, Spleen, Iron Horse and The Stanford Harmonics.
Dan Scarpa also recorded two versions of the song on his 2004 album, Dan Scarpa Experience Volume IV: The Journey Continues. The reprise is almost three minutes of him singing the Marianne's part a'cappella.

[edit] Chart performance
The single would prove to be successful, hitting #28 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #13 on the UK Singles Chart. It would be Metallica's last appearance in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 until 2008's "The Day That Never Comes".

[edit] Music video
The "Memory Remains" music video features a surreal, anti-gravity concept. It has the band playing on a large, suspended platform that makes full, continuous rotations throughout performance, similar to that of an enormous swing. Faithfull is eventually seen singing in a dark corridor. In reality, the platform and band are stationary and the room is spinning around it.
According to Encyclopedia Metallica, the video was shot at the Van Nuys Airport and cost $400,000 with the large platform costing over $100,000. The video premiered on MTV's Mattrock on November 15, 1997.[1]
There exist two versions of the music video, with a small difference in the beginning 5 seconds. In one version, James Hetfield is shown playing guitar, while in the other one Jason Newsted is shown playing bass and smiling.