Alan Niven

Alan Niven

Alan Niven is a New Zealand-born band manager best known for his time as manager of Guns N' Roses and Great White. He was manager of GN'R from 1986 to 1991, overseeing the band's affairs as they recorded Appetite For Destruction, but was fired by Axl Rose before the completion of Use Your Illusion. He also worked with the likes of Dokken, Berlin and Mötley Crüe.

Latest articles by Alan Niven

Izzy Stradlin posing wearing sunglasses

Why Izzy Stradlin was the rock'n'roll heart of Guns N' Roses

By Alan Niven published

Classic Rock presents the third in an exclusive series of excerpts from former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven’s forthcoming book Sound N’ Fury

Interviews
Slash onstage, and a python on one of Slash's signature Les Paul guitars

A bathroom full of snakes and Slash's road to compromise

By Alan Niven published

Classic Rock presents the second in an exclusive series of excerpts from former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven’s forthcoming book Sound N’ Fury

Interviews
Axl Rose onstage with Guns N' Roses live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, December 1988

Behind the scenes on Guns N' Roses' first trip to Japan

By Alan Niven published

Classic Rock presents the first in an exclusive series of excerpts from former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven’s forthcoming book Sound N’ Fury

Interviews
Great White manager Alan Niven with singer Jack Russell

Fire, faith & forgiveness: Former Great White manager Alan Niven on the self-destructive Jack Russell

By Alan Niven published

Alan Niven, the former manager, co-songwriter and producer of Great White on the Jack Russell he knew

Biographies
GN'R at the Troubadour in LA, the night they signed to Geffen

Guns N' Roses' former manager on 25 turbulent years with Slash

By Alan Niven published

Jack Daniels, drugs, trashed TVs and even kidnapping his own guitarist. Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven on 25 turbulent years with Slash

Interviews
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The people who run rock keep telling us it’s dead. They’re so wrong.

By Alan Niven published

This week, two industry big shots predicted a bleak future for rock'n'roll. Former Guns N' Roses and Great White manager Alan Niven thinks they're wrong, that rock will prevail. Here's why.

Bands & Artists
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The cancellation of Sonisphere: are record companies to blame?

By Alan Niven published

Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven thinks he knows why Sonisphere was cancelled: because record companies long ago gave up on artist development...

Music Industry
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BLOG: Gene should put his money where his mouth is

By Alan Niven published

Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven asks: If Gene Simmons cares about rock'n'roll and thinks it's dying, why won't he try and revive it?

Bands & Artists