Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven is suing the band over what he believes are attempts to block the publication of his new memoir, Sound N' Fury: Rock N' Roll Stories.
As reported by Rolling Stone USthe band reportedly threatened legal action against the publisher, claiming that the book violated a confidentiality agreement signed when Niven left the group in 1991. Niven, who led Guns in the heyday of Appetite for Destructionhowever, claims that the agreement is invalid because not all members of the band, including frontman Axl Rose, would have signed it.
The former manager also accuses the group of having already spoken publicly about him in the past, essentially violating the same rules that they invoke today to censor him. The lawsuit was filed Nov. 3 in the District Court of Arizona.
The memoir, initially scheduled for 2025, has currently been postponed to a later date. Furthermore, Niven declared that he only wanted to “tell the truth of those crazy years”, but the legal battle could turn into yet another chapter in a long saga full of tensions, resentments and legends that have accompanied Guns N' Roses for forty years.
