Guns N’ Roses Doesn’t Want This to Come Out
Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven has filed a lawsuit against the band, claiming they’ve been trying to block the release of his new memoir, Sound and Fury. According to court documents, Guns N’ Roses allegedly sent threats to both Niven and his publisher in an attempt to stop the book from coming out.
Niven — who helped shape the band’s success during the Appetite for Destruction era — says the group is invoking a 34-year-old confidentiality agreement to silence him. But he’s fighting back, saying that contract no longer applies. The big question: What’s in this book that Guns N’ Roses doesn’t want the world to read?
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@skottyo
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Never saw GnR live. I wasn't gonna stand like an A-hole waiting for Axl to come on stage hours late. F him
@konowd
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
The First Amendment should guarantee that Niven can write what he wants as long as it’s true. Axl is like Trump, he wants to make telling the truth illegal.
@konowd
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Slash mentioned in his book when Niven got fired it was one if the things that lead to their downfall. You’ll notice after he got canned the band went downhill fast
@mikemartinez9064
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
I saw GNR with Aerosmith at the starplex amphitheater in Dallas. One of the worst sounding concerts I ever saw.
@DEN-p8z
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
GnR is The Biggest One Hit Wonder Album in History…Just get over it!
Led Zeppelin Rules 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@jameslewis7381
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Who freaking cares, it's rock n roll💯🤘🤘🔥🔥
@GuybadFalling
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
The book is great, already read it 🤘
@MobileDecay
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
I saw the thumbnail and thought this video was about Axles looks in his old age and him hiding his chrome dome with a rag. 😂
@TheLordsGalloglass
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Hmm, by ‘91, didn’t Axl already have sole rights to the band name? I’m not sure it matters which members didn’t sign, if Axl was G’n’R (*from a legal, contractual standpoint)
@audiomedianews
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
What? Who hasn't heard of Alan Niven?
@beatagryglak2637
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
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@AL_KING777
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Extreme championship wrestling shout out
@joelpietsch9790
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Make a short story long.
@sadie4479
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Outside of publicity stunt, I can only think of one reason worthy of trying to stop a book being published.
@aallen9287
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
ECW chant….subscribed! 😂
@maxell330
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
So what about Traci Guns, is he going to get paid from GnR?
@dgk6661
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Axl and the other OG members have moved on with their lives. A book like this will dig up old wounds and cause confusion and disagreements.
@DAT240Z72
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
That’s like saying a Fortune 500 company can’t enter into a contract unless every single employee signs the contract!
NO! Just the one authorized representative is required to sign any agreement or contract!
@JohnSfromKy
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Why didn’t Geffen give Niven any dental insurance?
@bobjazzman9038
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
It sounds like Axl doesn’t want a secret to come out 😂😂😂
Get the checkbook out and pay the man to make the book go away or at least the dirty little secret
@ERNESTBASS-h2o
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Randy Quad , Cool Beans
@FuzzRatOD
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
I'll bet that "one member" is Steven Adler. Alan always said it was a mistake to kick him out and not work with his addictions, considering how much WORSE many other of the members issues were. Without taking anything away from the monster that Matt Sorum was and still is, Adler's swinging drumming was key to the GnR sound. Niven was right warning them that losing Adler and catering to Axl's whims would bring the band down. Izzy believed him and left. Without Niven GnR would not have gotten to where they did, and without him after, they imploded creatively. CD is a great Axl solo album, and a shitty GnR album.
@Maria-j5p3y
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Chinese Democracy wasn't a hit because it wasn't promoted
@MasonDaintreeForrest
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Hey bro can you start posting positive stories about metal bands… kind of over the typical bs fighting and breakups , surly you can post bands with happy positive stories?
@Ernst-o1s
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
This is what is referred to as a "nothing burger".
@beerjedi1324
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Oh Axl. How I missed you.
@Blag669
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Somebody should have fired axle mind you with his complete lack of any kind of singing talent it still makes no sense how he ever made it anywhere.
@Ultramentsh
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Guns n' roses don't want you to know this… Axl is totally bald and wears her hair piece
@zorlac4ever2022
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Looking at some of the comments and knowing it came out, how is this even a thing? I got my physical copy back in August. I ordered it from a bookstore back in June.
@Tanya_Mathews
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
The member was Slash. Slash encouraged him to write the book. I'm sure everyone has some skeletons in their closet but it is in deed Axl Rose who "REALLY" doesn't want that book coming out.
@perpetualmotion357
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
The band wouldn't have half their popularity they have today without Niven. He got Axl off so many things, gave him sing titles, was Izzy's translator when Axl wouldn't talk to him, Steven Adler, Niven and Izzy went as the 3 Musketeers for Halloween Havoc 91' in LA. Traci Guns once called Nevin the most influential your manager in the 80s
@lezbarker2673
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Bit late. If he hasn’t done anything in decades why now. No contract no money. Piss off
@yupanquid5538
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
It looks like he ran out of the money he got on '91 and now is regretting what he signed back then
@buckodonnghaile4309
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
So he names his memoir the same title as Faulkner's classic of American literature. It really is an industry of swine.
@Bastiaan12345-i
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Practical let Duff McKagan handle this man. He got a business degree and is very human. Get it settled and move on. Btw I am not buying that book. It is obviously a cash grab.
@georgefustos7243
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Personally I think it’s a marketing gimmick. Up until just now I haven’t heard of this book or anything remotely associated with it. I have a strong feeling that the author in this case (Niven) was most likely overpaid and possibly even given a sizable advance when the book publisher realized the book doesn’t have the interest in it as they were expecting. Instead of taking the hit they came up with this particular scheme hoping it would generate enough interest in it to at least break even. Anything above that is icing on the cake as the saying goes.
@mineralt
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Use Your Illusion 1&2 was such an unbelievable follow up to Appetite….blew my mind when those two albums came out
@PhillyJo-d4q
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Welcome to Court Room
@dannybursace9151
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
A bitter old fossil needing money…it’s been almost 35 years get over it dude, cheese n rice!
@jessicagutowski1271
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
What if it’s all a publicity stunt? They argue. File some frivolous lawsuits. The book does double to triple the estimated numbers. G&R gets their cut. Everyone goes home happy.
@Railoffroader2
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
34 years….
@nickthompson4978
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
What is the name of the book that g n r dosen’t want released
@konowd
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Axl was supposed to put out an official book thirty years ago, will never see the light of day
@konowd
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Bet Axl’s been stamping his feet and threatening to cut off everyone’s food stamps
@Parting_Mist
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
Pretty sure Traci Gunns was still in the band when Alan was brought in? Can anyone confirm that? Any mention of "the original Guns N Roses band" actually predates Slash and Adler. Gunns actually wrote a good portion of the first album, but he, too, was forced out and made to sign a confidentiality contract. Hm…this makes me REALLY want to read this book 🙂 There is a pattern emerging here, that will make one particular GNR member look Quite Bad…
@Emmitt-q1w
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
I’m not hating and I don’t want y’all to come after me but yes, auto tune and tracking is absolutely a style of playing and I love a lot of bands that use some tracks, but when it’s this heavy in a live setting, it’s not even playing live at that point it’s standing on stage with a guitar
@r2stik
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
1. dont buy
@konowd
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 pm
If the book gets past Axl’s roadblocks, Axl has given it great publicity and people will want to read it and see what Axl doesn’t want you to read. Axl is all gaslighting, petty threats and manipulation and no common sense. Smart celebrities don’t comment on bad press and before know it, the public quickly forgets about it.
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