LAWSUIT O’ MINE > Ex-Guns N’ Roses Manager Alan Niven sues the band to Stop them from Blocking the Release of his Memoir

ALL RISE PLEASE — In a brand new lawsuit, former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven has sued the band.

Niven is suing Guns N’ Roses in relation to his forth-coming memoir ‘Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories‘ which his lawsuit alleges the band are trying to block from being released.

Niven worked with Guns N’ Roses from 1986-1991, and over his career he also managed Great White along with Terri Nunn and her new-wave band Berlin.

The New Zealand born Niven also had connections to Mötley Crüe, Dokken and record labels like Enigma Records and Virgin Records.

Our friends over at Blabbermouth also reported on this story and we’ve shared a portion below.

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Former GUNS N’ ROSES manager Alan Niven has filed a lawsuit against the band to prevent them from blocking the release of his new memoir, “Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories”.

Originally scheduled for a July 5 release, the book has been delayed a couple of times and is presently available for pre-order via Amazon, with a March 31, 2026 release date listed.

In a lawsuit filed on November 3 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Niven claims that GUNS N’ ROSES has “blocked publication of the book through repeated threats to Niven and contact with” publisher ECW Press.

According to the lawsu

it, which was supplied to BLABBERMOUTH.NET by Niven‘s publicist, GUNS N’ ROSES wrote a letter in May 2025 “invok[ing] the confidentiality clause in its 1991 buyout agreement with Niven… despite the [fact that] the agreement was not signed by all of its members; GN’R‘s members have commented publicly on Niven; one member encouraged him to write the book; and he has been speaking about his time in GN’R for over a decade.”

Niven‘s attorney writes in the complaint that “Sound N’ Fury”‘s “publication has been delayed for months, even though it received a favorable review from the Los Angeles Times, and has received many preorders.”

The above section courtesy of Blabbermouth.

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