Singer Fran O’Toole, guitarist Tony Geraghty and trumpeter Brian McCoy were shot dead on a roadside close to Newry on July 31 1975 after having been pulled over at a bogus security forces checkpoint.

“I can’t remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride. But something touched me deep inside the day the music died… And as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial ...