Veteran rockers Guns N’ Roses are being haunted by a blast from the past with a fresh lawsuit.
The band’s former manager, Alan Niven, has filed a lawsuit to prevent them from blocking the release of his new memoir, Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories, according to Rolling Stone.
Guns N’ Roses allegedly threatened Niven over his autobiography’s publication. Copies, printed by ECW Press, are currently held in a warehouse.
Niven accuses Guns N’ Roses of using a 1991 confidentiality clause to block his book, despite his claim that at least one band member encouraged him to write it.
Niven, a music industry veteran who also managed Motley Crue and Great White, outlined the contents of Sound N’ Fury and explained its delay in his lawsuit.
“Sound N’ Fury consists of anecdotes about [Niven’s]

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