The loyalist murder of three members of the Miami Showband 25 years ago today has ensured that the band's name lives on in political as well as popular culture.
The musicians in one of Ireland's best known groups were killed when a UVF gang, some of whom were also members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, stopped them at a fake UDR roadblock on the main North-South road.
The band had just ended a concert in the Castle Ballroom, Banbridge, Co Down, and were returning to the Republic in the early hours in their minibus when they were waved down by an armed group wearing military uniforms.
The musicians pulled over for what they took to be a UDR checkpoint and climbed out of the minibus.
They were made to line up beside a ditch, place their hands on their heads and give their names and addresses.
Mr Stephen Travers, a 26-year-old bass guitarist who had recently joined the group, said the atmosphere was initially relaxed as the musicians were used to being stopped by the security forces in the North.
He became concerned about his guitar when some men seemed to be searching the rear of the van.
"I took my hands down and walked back and asked them what they thought they were doing with my guitar," he said.
Mr Travers was quickly punched in the back and within minutes the bomb the terrorists had been loading into the rear of the van went off prematurely.
"Very quickly the whole world turned a very, very bright red colour for me and I was thrown into the air and shot in the hip by a dumdum bullet," Mr Travers told RTE radio recently.
The bullet punctured Mr Travers's lung. The next thing he heard was his colleagues, instrumentalist Tony Geraghty (23), and lead singer Fran O'Toole (29), asking not to be killed. Their pleas were followed by a burst of machine-gun fire. Geraghty and O'Toole died instantly, along with trumpeter, Brian McCoy (33).
Two of the terrorists, Harris Boyle, a UVF "major" from Portadown, and Wesley Somerville, a UVF "lieutenant" from Caledon, Co Tyrone, died in the blast.
Meanwhile, a fourth band member, Mr Des Lee, had managed to flee across a field and emerged on to the road some distance from the ambush. He flagged down a passing truck and got a lift to Newry police station.
Mr Travers said he spent the next while "going and coming, walking around the field" in a delirious state.
He had been close friends with Mr Geraghty, and described Mr O'Toole as a jovial practical joker and Mr McCoy as a father figure.
"I'd just got the best job in Ireland and met some of the most exciting people I'd ever met in my life and it was brought to an abrupt end."
Four men received life sentences for their role in the Miami massacre.
Members of the Miami Showband, one of Ireland's best known groups, who were attacked by a UVF gang in the early hours at a fake UDR roadblock after playing a concert in the North. Four men received life sentences for the murders of three of them