Editing Three Imaginary Boys (section)

== Release ==

''Three Imaginary Boys'' was originally released on 8 May 1979 by record label Fiction.

The album was reissued on 29 November 2004 and featured a second disc of unreleased material, including songs recorded under the band name Easy Cure with [[Porl Thompson]]. It was originally supposed to be released in early 2004 along with the band's next three studio albums (''[[Seventeen Seconds]]'', ''[[Faith (The Cure album)|Faith]]'' and ''[[Pornography (album)|Pornography]]''), but was delayed multiple times before being released by itself at the end of 2004. As it featured a variety of old songs, it was the only Deluxe Edition by the band that did not include an alternate version of each song on the first disc. Some of the early booklets in the reissue had missing lyrics, which were made available on the Cure's website in [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] form.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}All copies since contain the lyrics.

A one-disc reissue was released on 5 September 2005, containing only the original album. It was also released in the standard jewel case rather than in a box. In some countries, the Deluxe Edition has become a collector's item as production was phased out, being replaced by the more economic single-disc version.