The story of the punk music genre, beginning in the late 1960s, when bands such as MC5 and The Stooges (with Iggy Pop), inspired by the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me', among others, laid the foundation for the punk genre . The term 'punk' was originally a term of abuse in America, coined by the underground magazine of the same name. Punk(rock) legends such as Iggy Pop, Johnny Rotten, Wayne Kramer, Marky Ramone often talk about how punk came into being and how it developed until its peak at the end of the 1970s.