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Guns N’ Roses Threatening to Sue Ex-Manager Over Memoir, Lawsuit Says: ‘He Wants To Tell His Story’
Alan Niven alleges Guns N' Roses uses a 1991 confidentiality clause to block his memoir, delaying its release and causing financial losses with thousands of copies stored, lawsuit claims.
- Last month, former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven filed a lawsuit to prevent the band from blocking publication of his memoir Sound N' Fury: Rock N' Roll Stories, seeking a declaratory judgment that the 1991 contract is unenforceable.
- Invoking a decades-old clause, the band's lawyers have threatened Niven and his publisher using a `confidentiality clause` from the 1991 buyout settlement, though Niven says Axl Rose never signed the agreement.
- Thousands of printed copies of Sound N' Fury have been printed and continue to incur storage expenses while sitting in a warehouse, and individual advance orders were cancelled, Niven alleges.
- Originally slated for July 5, the memoir Sound N' Fury: Rock N' Roll Stories has been delayed multiple times and is now listed for a March 31, 2026 release, while Alan Niven alleges the band intimidated ECW Press, causing these delays.
- Last month, an onstage incident involving Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses frontman, underscored the dispute's timeliness as Niven's lawyers argue public disclosures protect free expression.
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Guns N’ Roses Former Manager Suing the Band for Allegedly Blocking His Memoir From Being Released
Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven is suing the band, alleging that they are trying to block his memoir from being released. Niven’s biography is titled Sound N’ Fury: Rock ‘N’ Roll Stories, and was originally set to be released this year, in July. The release was inexplicably bumped to September as rumors began swirling that Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose — who is also a recent author — was trying to stop it indefinitely. Niven’s Relation…
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