On 18 September 1986, while on their way to Mostar to hold the first concert on the album promotional tour, the band members were involved in a car accident which killed Aljoša Buha.

Already infatuated with the 1970s British and American hard rock, in parallel with his secondary education at Sarajevo's Druga Gimnazija, the teenager started a short-lived band Misterija (Mystery).

[3] Upon graduating high school, he enrolled in the journalism program at the University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Political Sciences, where he would later meet future fellow musician Branko Đurić, but, for the time being in September 1980, immediately went to serve his mandatory Yugoslav People's Army stint.

The Ričl-Arslanagić project was soon unveiled, a band named Crvena Jabuka with the rest of the lineup consisting of keyboardist Dražen "Žera" Žerić, drummer Darko "Cunja" Jelčić, and bassist Aljoša Buha.

[4][12] Promoting the album, Crvena Jabuka held several live performances[4]—including being booked for the Maj Rok single-day open-air festival at the Marx-Engels Square in Belgrade celebrating late Marshal Tito's birthday, an official holiday in communist Yugoslavia known as the Youth Day.

The festival had originally been scheduled for 24 May 1986 (the closest Saturday to the 25 May holiday), beginning that day with 100,000 spectators gathered at the square before getting interrupted due to an extended torrential downpour and flash flooding.

In late summer 1986, as a consequence of the outstanding sales of Crvena Jabuka's debut album, the band booked the Bosnia-Herzegovina leg of a planned Yugoslavia-wide tour, the opening date of which was scheduled for Thursday, 18 September 1986 in Mostar at the Kantarevac Stadium.

[14] On a single-lane bidirectional road next to the Neretva river near the town of Jablanica, the Zastava 750 driven by Arslanagić veered into oncoming traffic colliding head-on with a truck.

The three surviving members of Crvena Jabuka decided to continue their activity, dedicating their next release, the 1987 album Za sve ove godine (For All These Years) to Ričl and Buha.