{"id":26380,"date":"2024-04-16T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=26380"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:05:02","slug":"heaven-and-hell-my-life-in-the-eagles-1974-2001-by-don-felder-with-wendy-holden-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/heaven-and-hell-my-life-in-the-eagles-1974-2001-by-don-felder-with-wendy-holden-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven And Hell:  My Life In The Eagles (1974-2001) by Don Felder With Wendy Holden Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"26380\" class=\"elementor elementor-26380\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-84d5147 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"84d5147\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ccf707\" data-id=\"7ccf707\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a37f20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a37f20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I was super late to this, but I finally read Don Felder (ex lead guitarist of The Eagles) book earlier this year.<\/p><p>This book, called Heaven And Hell:\u00a0 My Life In The Eagles (1974-2001), was released in the late 2000s.<\/p><p>Don collaborated with author Wendy Holden on this book.<\/p><p>As the title suggests, this book chronicles Don&#8217;s time in the hugely successful band The Eagles.\u00a0 It also talks about his life leading up to being in the band and afterwards.<\/p><p>In short, it&#8217;s Don&#8217;s autobiography, and if you are a fan, I highly recommend reading this book.<\/p><p>Lots of stories.\u00a0 Lots of details.<\/p><p>As a side note, I also highly recommend seeing Don in concert.\u00a0 You will not be disappointed.\u00a0<\/p><p>Don is an extremely talented guitar player and actually is a very good singer too.\u00a0<\/p><p>He sings\/plays The Eagles songs in concert and does a great job.\u00a0 He also has a few really good solo albums too.\u00a0 Check them out.<\/p><p>And check out this book.<\/p><p>Even if you are not a fan of The Eagles but just are a fan of music and bands in general, then this is quite the book to read about music and the music 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This book, called Heaven And Hell:\u00a0 My Life In The Eagles (1974-2001), was released in the late 2000s. Don collaborated with author Wendy Holden on this book. As the title suggests, this book chronicles Don&#8217;s time in the hugely successful band The Eagles.\u00a0 It also talks about his life leading up to being in the band and afterwards. In short, it&#8217;s Don&#8217;s autobiography, and if you are a fan, I highly recommend reading this book. Lots of stories.\u00a0 Lots of details. As a side note, I also highly recommend seeing Don in concert.\u00a0 You will not be disappointed.\u00a0 Don is an extremely talented guitar player and actually is a very good singer too.\u00a0 He sings\/plays The Eagles songs in concert and does a great job.\u00a0 He also has a few really good solo albums too.\u00a0 Check them out. And check out this book. Even if you are not a fan of The Eagles but just are a fan of music and bands in general, then this is quite the book to read about music and the music business. Very good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-book-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26380"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26395,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26380\/revisions\/26395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}