Three Imaginary Boys

Through more than 30 extravagant years and 20 extraordinary albums and 27 million combined album sales The Cure have done it all in their own unmistakable way.

Free, independent, wilful, unconfined, the band have spent most of their career creating and exploring in the strange places where the worlds of mainstream and alternative collide. They have developed a range of uniquely distinctive sounds and styles, and in the process created as great a body of contemporary music as you could wish to hear.

Three Imaginary Boys, was released in 1979. The strangely beguiling mix of peculiarly obscure imagery and sparsely angular music caused a great deal of controversy and comment. Three Imaginary Boys kick-started an extensive UK touring period, during which The Cure played with various other emergent bands of the time such as Wire, Joy Division and The Jam.