German-speaking fans interested in Don’s life story can now read Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles in German instead of having to Babelfish our site’s excerpt.

Mein Leben mit den EAGLES 1974-2001: Durch Himmel und Höllehas now been released by Hannibal Verlag, an Austrian publishing company specializing in German-language adaptations of recent music and pop culture books.

The German edition can be ordered from the Hannibal site or from Amazon.de

The end of another year has crept up again and that means it’s time for a look back at some of this year’s Felder moments.

In January, Don played for the first time in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, the crème-de-la-crème of celebrity pro-am golf tournaments…..Felderfans.com celebrates three years online in February.  Close to 300,000 Felder fans have checked us out since day one…..Don’s 1981 song Heavy Metal (Takin’ A Ride) accompanies Kenny into outer space as part of the soundtrack to an episode of the Emmy-award winning cartoon South Park in March. Have a lot of cats in YOUR neighborhood gone missing?… April showers…..bring Don’s autobiography to U.S. bookstores in May.

For those of you without access to a newsstand copy, Macleans magazine has now published an online version of a question and answer session with Don (click the thumbnail to view the article). There are some pretty interesting tidbits in this one instead of the usual rehearsed sound bites. And good call on the best guitarist you’ve ever met, Don. You’ve more than likely met hundreds, and Jeff Beck IS awesome.

Speaking of Canada, tickets for Don’s shows in February in Niagara Falls, Ontario are now on sale via ticketmaster.ca.

Earlier this month, Don was spotted a little closer to home in what appeared to be a mixed bag of musical genre(-ations) at an invitation-only event sponsored by Blue Microphone. Here some press photos we found at wireimage.

Although it will be a bit late for this year’s Christmas gift-giving, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles will be published in paperback in the U.S. this coming April 2009 by Wiley & Sons. We have yet to see the book in audio format, either through Wiley or Orion U.K. If it does eventually get published on CD, why bring in a stranger? We think Don should narrate it, so get to work now, guys.

Speaking of Heaven and Hell, we’ve gotten a lot of mail from folks asking if they can send Don their copies to have autographed. We asked Don about this and he said at the time being he doesn’t have a logistics scheme set up to handle requests by mail. As an alternative he’s considering offering concert-goers the chance to purchase the book at his live shows and have him autograph it on the spot.

If you're in the greater London area next week, stop in and chat with Don while he autographs your purchase of Heaven and Hell at the Waterstone's Milton Keynes on Wednesday, September 10 beginning at 17:00h. Don's appearance coincides with the release of the paperback edition in the U.K.