Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) | 
 enlarge | Author: Don Felder
Creator: Wendy Holden
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  57 reviews
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0470289066
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9780470289068
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Publication Date: April 21, 2008
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Product Description
The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever. Now band member and guitarist Don Felder finally breaks the Eagles’ years of public silence to take fans behind the scenes. He shares every part of the band’s wild ride, from the pressure-packed recording studios and trashed hotel rooms to the tension-filled courtrooms, and from the joy of writing powerful new songs to the magic of performing in huge arenas packed with roaring fans.
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 Grow Up, Felder! August 27, 2008
D. Duffy (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I always love an insider look at rock bands, but Don Felder is such a whiny baby that I had to work hard to keep my lunch down while reading his tome. There is no doubt that Felder is a great guitarist, but no one will ever accuse him of being a great thinker. Don Henley and Glenn Frey ARE the Eagles and apparently Felder was the last one to figure this out. Sorry, bub, other than writing the music to "Hotel California," you were always a sideman, no matter what agreements were made in the very beginning of Eagles, Ltd. You should have just accepted that Henley and Frey were the Lennon and McCartney of your outfit or gotten out if it was as bad as you described and saved us all 300 pages of bellyaching and whining.
 Let the truth set you free! August 27, 2008
Kimba (Pembroke, MA USA)
"Heaven and Hell:My Life in the Eagles" is a must read for any fan. I have been a long time fan of the Eagles and have read alot about how the band couldn't get along, but to I am astonish to read that they had differences since the very start. I liked the book from beginning to end. Felder tells us about his heart warming and sometimes unsettling life with his parents, wife, and children; as well the good and bad times of being a member of the Eagles. I found it interesting that he knew and was hanging out with so many well known and legendary musicians before they made it famous. I just couldn't put this book down. After finishing the book I just wanted to give him a hug.
 Take it to the Limit August 22, 2008
J. West (California, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think Felder did a great job of putting his ego in the background and telling the story straight. Don and Glenn pushed the band from an equal partnership of five Eagles to the two Gods plus their hired hands Tim and Joe. Felder fought and lost. Yes he resents the heck out of them but at the same time is not so blinded by his anger (perhaps due to help from an able ghostwriter) as to present an unrealistically one-sided tale.
The book is clearly cathartic for someone who lost his marriage, his career and decades-long friendships to his fight against Henley and Frey. Anyone who's loved and lost -- or made major life mistakes -- can relate to the story of survival and determination.
It serves as a reminder that the Eagles are more like all the other reunion bands -- with a few originals and several interlopers -- rather than the myth of continuity presented by their PR machine. Of the best-selling rock album of all time -- their Greatest Hits -- only 2 of the original 5 contributors remain. That all seven were present for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is one of the few legitimate codas to the long soap opera of Eagles Ltd.
Controlled by The Gods August 22, 2008
Larry Rochelle
Don Felder, composer of HOTEL CALIFORNIA, has written a book yanked from the belly of the beast.
Five musicians gather as equals, form a great country-rock band, and then discover not all of them are created equal.
Felder, the ethereal mood-guitar artist, nicknamed "Fingers" by "The Gods", strikes back at them with a thorough biographical view of their inter-relationships, fights, orgies, threats, business-dealings, grudges and knifings that somehow came together for a short time under the cold eyes of Glen Frey and Don Henley, the control-freaks who ran and ran into the ground the flight of The Eagles.
And Felder does not pull any punches, so if Henley and Frey are your heroes, be prepared for a huge jolt of reality.
Also, be prepared to listen to The Eagles in a new way. Some songs used to seem vague; now they can be deciphered.
At times, Felder's account of his own drug abuse and marriage failure seems a bit maudlin, over-dramatic. Too much posed fainting and remembered sighs.
But you can accept all this because he survived the trauma and escaped from the Hotel California with most of his brain intact.
Wait a minute. I just gotta stop here and listen, once again, to his soulful riffs on "I Can't Tell You Why."
by Larry Rochelle, author of BOURBON AND BLISS, the dark side of New Orleans.
 GET OVER IT! August 20, 2008
S. C. Parker (Salt Lake City, UT.)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love the Eagles' music, always have, always will. I guess I knew they were ALL a bunch of egomaniacs and not very nice people but didn't really care. Don Felder attempts to make himself out to be the good guy of the group but I'm not buying it. He cheats on his wife for years and then gets his feelings all hurt because she finally gets her own life. He obviously despises Henley and Frey (who wouldn't?) but sucks up to them every chance he gets. He is constantly crying like a little girl about how horrible life in the Eagles is but can't seem to get a grip when they kick him out. He just doesn't come off as very sympathetic to me, no better or worse than the rest of them. And if you are looking for any juicy tidbits of gossip, forget it. This book is basically Don Felder patting himself on the back and whining about life in one of the best and most successful bands ever.
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