Former manager Alan Niven has filed a lawsuit against Guns N’ Roses, claiming the group has made ‘repeated threats’ to stop the release of his forthcoming memoir, Sound N’ Fury: Rock ’N’ Roll Stories.

The book was meant to hit shelves this past summer, but was pushed to September, then quietly rescheduled again, now sitting with a new release date of March 2026 on Amazon.

Behind the shifting deadlines, Niven alleges, are lawyers for frontman Axl Rose working to keep the book from ever seeing the light of day.

And it’s not the first time Rose and Niven have clashed.

Their relationship collapsed back in 1991, when the frontman reportedly refused to finish Use Your Illusion until Niven was gone. The two parted ways under a settlement deal that Niven now says Axl himself never actually sig

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