Alan Niven, a former manager of Guns N’ Roses during what his lawyers term “their most prolific period” in the 1980s and early ‘90s, has sued his former business associates in Arizona over their attempts to stop the publication of his memoir, Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories .

In the suit, filed yesterday and obtained by Variety , Niven’s lawyers argue that the confidentiality agreement they signed in 1991 was repeatedly breached by three principal members of Guns N’ Roses – singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagen – in books and interviews, and that Niven himself was not previously threatened with any legal action for doing his own interviews that touched on his history with the band.

Despite that, Niven says that Guns N’ Roses blocked the release of his memoir

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