Dražen Ričl

Dražen Ričl, known under nicknames "Zijo" and "Para", (12 March 1962 – 1 October 1986) was a Yugoslav rock musician, best known as the original frontman of popular pop rock band Crvena Jabuka.

Ričl started his musical activity in his hometown Sarajevo in the early 1980s. He rose to prominence as guitarist for the band Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors and participant in the New Primitivism subcultural movement. He gained nationwide popularity in Yugoslavia as the vocalist and guitarist of Crvena Jabuka, which he formed in 1985 with guitarist Zlatko Arslanagić, along with keyboardist Dražen Žerić, bassist Aljoša Buha, and drummer Darko Jelčić. The band's 1986 self-titled debut album was an instant commercial success. On 18 September 1986, while on their way to Mostar for their first solo concert on the album promotional tour, the band members were involved in a car accident which killed Aljoša Buha. Ričl was transferred to the Mostar city hospital with severe head injuries. Several days later he was transferred to the Military Medical Academy (VMA) in Belgrade, where he died.