Porno Graffitti

Faithful '80s rock devotees Porno Graffitti (named after an Extreme album) enjoyed bigger success in their native Japan than perhaps could have been expected had they been a Western band, thanks to the unyielding popularity that the music of the hair metal decade has with Japanese listeners, even in the 2000s. The band was formed in 1994 by three Osaka students, Akihito Okano, Haruichi Shindo, and Masami Shiratama, but it took them several years to gain public attention, despite the fact that they managed to land a demo tape in the hands of a Sony representative early in their...