Čičak (a.k.a.Burdock) attended secondary school, the First Gymnasium of Sarajevo from 1961-1965 in a period of strong music influences from USA and UK which shaped up both mainstream and new wave across the former Yugoslavia.
In late sixties in the basement of a student house Mladen Stojanović, in downtown Sarajevo, the first underground club Barutana was taking a shape.