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Former Guns N’ Roses<\/a> manager Alan Niven has\u00a0filed a lawsuit against the band to stop them from attempting to block the release of his new memoir, Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sound N’ Fury<\/em> was originally\u00a0scheduled for a July 2025 release. It was delayed until September and is now scheduled for a March 31 release on Amazon. But in a lawsuit filed on Nov. 3 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Niven claims that Guns N’ Roses \u2014 particularly frontman Axl Rose<\/a> \u2014 have\u00a0made threats to Niven and publisher ECW Press\u00a0to thwart the\u00a0release of the book.<\/p>\n Niven \u2014 a music industry veteran who\u00a0worked with Motley Crue<\/a> in their early days and managed both Guns N’ Roses and Great White<\/a> \u2014\u00a0summarized the contents of\u00a0Sound N’ Fury<\/em>\u00a0and detailed the reasons for its delay in his lawsuit.<\/p>\n “Sound N’ Fury<\/em> consists of anecdotes about\u00a0[Niven’s] career, including distributing the first Sex Pistols<\/a> singles in the U.S., cooking a dinner for guitarist Robert Fripp<\/a>, going to bat for a scruffy musician named Frank Feranna (later known as Nikki Sixx<\/a>) and reinventing Great White twice,” the\u00a0complaint reads. “It also includes stories involving the members [of] GNR, while he represented the five individuals who made up the classic lineup of the band.”<\/p>\n It continues: “Now, however, due to GNR’s threats,\u00a0Sound N’ Fury<\/em> languishes in a warehouse. In a letter written in May 2025, GNR invoked the confidentiality clause in its 1991 buyout Agreement with Niven (the ‘Agreement’) and has blocked publication of the book through repeated threats to Niven and contact with ECW [Sound N’ Fury<\/em>‘s publisher].”<\/p>\n The lawsuit says that “GNR takes this position despite the following facts (among others): the Agreement was not signed by all of its members (a material term); GNR’s members have commented publicly on Niven; one member encouraged him to write the book; and he has been speaking about his time in GNR for over a decade.\u00a0Sound N’ Fury<\/em>‘s publication has been delayed for months, even though it received a favorable review from the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em> and has received many preorders.”<\/p>\nDetails of Alan Niven’s Lawsuit Against Guns N’ Roses<\/h3>\n