Former GUNS N' ROSES manager Alan Niven is featured in a new interview with Jeb Wright and Jake Willoughby at Classic Rock Revisited. Niven talks about all things rock n' roll, past, present and future. Check it out below:

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Back in October 2010, BraveWords.com's Mitch Lafon caught up with Niven to talk about the young Guns N' Roses and the master plan behind their 1987 major label monster Appetite For Destruction, which is the highest selling debut album of all time.

BraveWords.com: When you were working on Destruction and Lies (1988), were you concerned about the swearing on the albums. Back then it wasn't really common place and it really took rock music in a new direction.

Niven: "I felt that it was honest within the context and not merely gratuitous. The same reasoning behind 'One In A Million' - I thought Axl was making an honest statement about who he once was. I would not make the same decision about that song today btw. I'd roll it up in a Charley Manson shirt and flush it."

BraveWords.com: Did you worry about the record company rejecting the album?

Niven: "No - David Geffen was receptive the idea of teenage angst."

BraveWords.com: Did you worry about being accepted on mainstream radio?

Niven: "The first single released was 'It's So Easy' in the UK, a deliberate move since we knew the BBC would reject it. Just as the first cover was a deliberate move - there were 30,000 units of the original cover manufactured, and the 30,001 cover was the 'replacement' artwork that had already been formed and fabricated prior even to the release of the first cover. We were playing the games, we expected to be rejected, counting on it in fact, in order to stir up attention and pique the interest of the rebellious and disenfranchised mindset. It was all designed to distance from the contemporary established bands, the status quo."

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