Drawing their name from the moniker of Depression-era outlaw Charles Arthur Floyd, Hollywood's Pretty Boy Floyd surfaced in 1987 as the glam and pop-metal era wound down. Their first full-length effort, the 1989 release Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz, entered the Billboard 200 and spawned the charting singles "Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire)" and "I Wanna Be with You." After folding in 1994, the band resurfaced in the closing years of the decade and subsequently issued the EP A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n' Roll along with the albums Size Really Does Matter in 2004 and Public Enemies in 2017. A 2021 anthology titled Rock & Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire) gathered demos, covers, and re-recordings.
The quartet formed in 1987 with singer Steve Summers, guitarist Kristy Majors, bassist Vinnie Chas, and drummer Karl Kane. Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz arrived in 1989, climbing to number 130 on the Billboard Albums chart thanks to the two singles mentioned above. When grunge displaced pop-metal tastes in the early 1990s, the group lost its label and disbanded in 1994. They reassembled late in the decade, putting out the EP A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n' Roll in 1998 and the Cleopatra-issued compilation Porn Stars later that same year.
Following an extended break, Pretty Boy Floyd returned in 2004 via the Deadline label with Size Really Does Matter. After another stretch of limited activity during which members pursued separate endeavors, the band signed with Frontiers Records and delivered Public Enemies in 2017; guitarist Majors called the album the genuine successor to their 1989 debut. Stray Bullet, a 2019 collection of early-1990s demos originally slated as the follow-up to Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz, came next, and the additional rarities set Rock & Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire) appeared in 2021.
