D.a.d Greatest Hits

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Theband has been active since 1984, and to celebrate, they present us with a greatest hits album that takes us on a nostalgic ride. Tracks from the band's later history are also included. Fans from every decade will enjoy this album which comes on double CD and double vinyl.

Canadian R&B Soul group Jacksoul won a number of Juno awards among other recognitions. They were handpicked to tour with James Brown and shared the stage with acts like Patti Labelle, Jim Cuddy and Nelly Furtado.

Lead singer Haydain Neale was one of the most beautiful souls. He managed to be intellectual, funny, big-hearted and talented while staying humble. His love for his gorgeous wife was something out of a story book and a love that not many people have in a lifetime. He wrote many songs about her, which became Canadian hits. I know all of this because he was my dad.

Growing up with parents in the music industry is a strange thing. You are constantly meeting famous people, going to cool events and it is quite easy to get a big head and start thinking you're the coolest kid around. Luckily my parents would of never let that happen to me. My dad was the most down to earth musician and person I've ever met.

Over the years after his passing all I ever hear are stories about the wonderful good deeds he did for people. I meet strangers who just met him once or twice briefly, but all the memories they share are really positive and sweet.

Jacksoul's greatest hits album just came out and I am so proud of his music and the bands loyalty to him. Monday we had a private CD release party at the Bloor street Roots store in Toronto. It doesn't really get more Canadian than Roots. The clothing company did many photo shoots with my dad, and they would fit the band for certain events. Some of the good people there became like family to us.

Last night watching a sea of faces who loved my dad pay tribute and respect to his honour, five years after his passing was so overwhelming. The love in that room was infectious. Musicians Divine Brown, Ivana Santilli and Luke McMaster played some of their favourite Jacksoul tunes to a quiet but engaged crowd.

As a child I learned the music industry can be a very fake and cut throat place. There is always someone out for your job, someone pretending to be your friend for all the wrong reasons, shady managers and some musicians who want credit for things they didn't even do.

Yet even after his death, my dad can only seem to bring the best of the best together. The real people that are there because they are genuine. They stand in that room and honour him not just because of his incredible talent as a musician, but his big heart and beautiful soul that touched so many. They are some of the realest people I've ever known.

I often say that the greatest hits album is the the best of our lives together. Most of those beautiful songs are about my strong, empathetic and incredible mother. She needs a whole article of her own really, because she taught me what it is to love unconditionally until the very end. Watching her big blue eyes look at my dad everyday with true love. She never left his side after a serious vespa accident in 2007, she never left his side after a cancer diagnosis in 2009 and she never stops carrying him in her heart.

Jacksoul was more than just a band, they were a group of brothers and one sister (the back up singer). They have a strong love and respect for each other. Watching these talented musicians continue to play in various groups is hard sometimes because I believe they all belong together. However seeing them grow as people, start families and carry my dad in their hearts means more to me than they even know. I am proud of them and know my dad is looking down at them feeling the same.

Many people ask me about his legacy and what he left. Yes, of course he left incredible music that is timeless but his true legacy is his personality. He touched so many people by doing nice things despite being famous or important. He continued to reach out and give and that is a legacy to me. It is an important lesson to learn that being a good person and going above and beyond will always be remembered after you are gone.

When I was 19 my dad passed away in mine and my mother's arms. I made him a promise right before his last breath, I promised I would make something of myself. I continue everyday to hold that in my heart, it is the best promise I made to him and myself. I graduate college in a few weeks and although I wish he could be there, I know he will be watching proud as I continue my own journey as an adult.

The biggest Danish rock band celebrates its birthday! D-A-D turns forty years old.

Of course, it's time to celebrate. And how! A best-of release that's really something.

All of the band's hits from four decades of music history, compiled on one album.

The absolutely true greatest hits. And the icing on the cake? Of course, the strictly

limited edition vinyl version with four alternative covers. Only while stocks last! And

we'll go one better: for the CD lovers among you, a strictly limited version of the

digipak is only available in the AFM Shop, with several surprises in store. That's all?

Nonsense! In the AFM Shop you can also get the vinyl covers as a bundle at a

lower price - so it's best to buy all four versions directly! Congratulations to the band

and have fun on this wild ride through nostalgia and the present! From songs like

"Sleeping My Day Away", or "Bad Craziness", to new songs like "A Prayer for the

Loud" or "Burning Star". There is something for every fan of every decade.

What the upcoming greatest hits album represents to me are the stories of our lives. What I think is forgotten in the story sometimes is the strength of my mother. The hardest part of losing my dad at age 19 is having to watch my mom rebuild her life without her soulmate. She is the glue that held us together during the time my dad was injured in a Vespa accident. After he was diagnosed with cancer she remained strong, by his side every day, doing everything and anything she could to make his final months enjoyable. I learned more in that time by watching their unconditional love than I have been taught anywhere else in this journey of life.

Fans still reach out and tell me all the reasons Jacksoul has helped them through hard times and the music is still therapy for me too. There are so many beautiful gems in his collection and to know that the world will have all of these treasures on one album brings me a lot of closure on the music side of things.

The creation of Neil Young's 2005 album "Prairie Wind" was fraught with tragedy. In March of that year, Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He was treated for it but days later passed out on the street following post-surgery complications. He managed to recover, but a few months after that close cut with fate, his father Scott passed away at age 87. Thus, "Prairie Wind" is full of beautiful remembrances of his dad, best captured in the title track and the beautiful highlight "Here for You". Depicting a bond and sweetness that lasts through the seasons, Young acquiesces to the inevitable, but not without his heart having a final say. "Yes, I'd miss you / But I never want to hold you down," he sings over a gentle country amble. The sweetness of the melody almost undercuts how devastating the situation is, but it was one of the most honest, gentlest, and kindest tunes Young has ever penned.

Written about his strange compulsion to drive by his father's house time and time again for years on end, Springsteen's homage to his dad talks about the things he inherited and the things left unsaid between them. From his stripped-down 1982 masterpiece "Nebraska," "My Father's House" isn't an easy listen, but it is a gorgeous, shining tribute to the memories he and his dad once had. "I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart," Springsteen sings in a low grumble, "Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts."

Another beautiful song about a strained father-daughter relationship, Reba McEntire's 1992 country classic is a striking ballad about all the ways to say "I love you" without ever saying "I love you." "The greatest man I never knew lived just down the hall / And everyday we said hello but never touched at all," McEntire sings over a plaintive piano and echoing drum fills. To some it may be sappy, but the song is so lyrically precise that its earnestness outweighs any sense of mawkish sentimentality, nailing down the feelings of millions with its stunning ending lines: "He never said he loved me / Guess he thought I knew."

There's a litany of great songs about fathers, but in equal measure, there are just as many great songs that fathers have written about their children. Taken from 1980's "Double Fantasy," the critically drubbed album that ended up being Lennon's last full-length released before his murder, this song found new life following the outpouring of grief following his passing, soon turning its parent album into a commercial success and sentimental favorite. As such, a song like "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)", a maudlin ode to his son Sean, was now being viewed as sweet and heartfelt beyond measure, with Lennon's lyrics showing that all he wants to do is comfort his son after a nightmare. Even now, it's hard not to hear this sweet, laid-back pop number and not get a little teary-eyed yourself.

John Mayer's sentimental favorite "Daughters" covers oh so much ground in its short four-minute runtime: supporting a girlfriend, watching how "girls become lovers who turn into mothers," dealing with family walking out, how boys try to soldier on but can't without "warmth from a woman's good, good heart" -- the list goes on. Yet its repeated plea in the chorus, where he sings "fathers, be good to your daughters," is what has resonated for nearly two decades after the fact. Even if some of the lyrics jut out at awkward angles ("On behalf of every man / Looking out for every girl / You are the God and the weight of her world"), there's still a pulsating heart underneath all these expertly placed guitar plucks, making for a daddy-daughter number that continues to radiate warmth all these years later.

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