Guns N' Roses' manager has fired back at allegations the band illegally borrowed music from an German electronic pop artist. Axl Rose's band and Universal Music Group executives have been sued by bosses at two indie record labels, who have accused them of copying portions of songs by Ulrich Schnauss.

Record companies Independiente and Domino claim "Riad N' The Bedouins", a track on Guns N' Roses' 2008 album Chinese Democracy, features illegal samples of Schnauss' "Wherever You Are" and "A Strangely Isolated Place".

But music mogul Irving Azoff insists the band didn't knowingly use any...