Some 30 years after the NWW list's publication, and 15 years after the Audion Guide To Nurse With Wound, I received an email from Franz de Byl asking me to remove his name and the quoted record from the list. 

I replied to him, explaining that whilst I cannot remove his name (from what is an established list), I could remove the listed record from the web site version.

To this I got the reply below....



Dear Mr. Alan Freeman,


I thank you for your answer on which I would like to inform you of the
following. 
I know that the "NWW" list is not your list. I also know that many
people take seriously this list apparently very much and presumably also
many musicians whose names are registered on this list, are glad and
thankful about that, like as an internationally approved price would
have been lent to them. Differently it behaves with me. 
I hold this "list" for a pure selfstaging of his creator who claims to
only he would be able to decide what musicians have created "new and/or
revolutionary" works. To whom does this list decrease generally? Do you
know this maybe?
Once provided that this guy wanted to have put together his "list" after
the best knowledge and conscience, he decided, in case of "Franz de Byl
& Heiner Hohnhaus" absolutely inaccurately and had totally been wrong.
And this for following reasons: 
1. The LP appeared without permission of both musicians. 
2. In particular the musicians have not allowed to bring the cover in
the present form to the publication. 
3. The name Heiner Hohenhaus is printed wrong on the cover ("Heiner
Hohnhaus"). 
4. On the LP treatments are included by compositions of the originators
Leonard Cohen, Stevie Winwood and others, nevertheless, the Metronome
has printed at the cover back all "music and text of Franz de Byl and
Heiner Hohnhaus" without our permission. 
5. At that time HH and me had no juridical possibilities to prevent the
delivery of the LP to trade, we had to watch virtually helplessly how
the LP reached in the sales. Heiner committed suicide in 1971.
6. The whole repertoire of the Hansa publishing company had been sold in
the interim several times and lies, in the meantime, with Universal
Music Europe. I could take up contact with the Berlin boss of Universal
to release a search because of this production. Dr. Henning Zimmermann
has everywhere allow to seek and look - there are found neither the
original tapes nor the so-called "Artwork" of this production. The whole
production has been presumably already destroyed in the 70s by Hansa
itself, and one assumes from the fact that Hansa thereby wanted to
anticipate menacing damages charges of the originators, however, also of
the interpreters and escape. Dr. Zimmermann has confirmed, in any case,
in writing that Universal could have received no documents about the
production MLP 15.383 from Hansa. 
7. I myself had lost the whole matter out of sight, because the LP
disappeared fast from the market and with it from the public and I
thought, was o.k. this your first experience with a music publisher, you
have lost one of your best friends, a lot of mockery and damage on you
must take, but, finally, it is over... 
Until the Internet and this goddamned "NWW" list came. 
Dear Mr. Freeman, I ask you after these explanations urgently to want to
carry out an immediate deletion of my name and this whole dreadful
production in on your website published "NWW" list. I will direct
same-being writings to ALL operating authorities from similarly
decorated websites and please you, in addition to want to support me
with the fact that in future every kind of publication ceases.

Sincerely Yours

Franz de Byl
Musician & music teacher