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Could we be honest and actually give credit where it is due? The Metalhammer Awards were part of the very first concept of Metalhammer magazine itself as developed in 1983/4 by Wilfried Rimensberger who also delivered the very first award to Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson at his at the time humble home in West London. The concept of a multi-lingual Hardrock magazine with various ancillary and for the success of the magazine important aspects such as the awards was faxed at the time from London's Lansdowne Road at to MusicSzene magazine publisher Jürgen Wickinghaus in Lüdenscheid, who pretended not to have any interest in the idea, whilst taking the concept and developing a German version of it. The Award may have changed its name to Golden Gods Awards but remains, in essence, the same.
