Bernie & The Gravitones
This internationally reviled singing group was formed in 2000 by the gravitational collapse of a group of relativistically untalented singers in order to perform at KipFest, in recognition of Kip Thorne's 60th birthday. Since then the group, in various permutations and incarnations, has astonished audiences at many insignificant events. Their most popular musical signature is the key of approximate D-major and a half. Below you'll find the events, along with the lyrics of the sorry attempts at parody perpetrated by the group.
KipFest
(2000)
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Richard
Price Fest (2003) Gravitones: Sandor Kovacs,
Bernard Schutz, |
Bernard
Schutz Fest (2006) Sian and the Curvatures filled in for the 'Tones: Sian, Rachel, Catherine & Annalie Schutz, Leslie & Cliff Will, Jonathan Korth |
Cliff
Will Fest (2006) Gravitones: Sandor Kovacs, Richard Price, Bernard Schutz, Kip Thorne, plus Albert |
Saul Teukolsky Fest (2007) |
Sandor Kovacs
Fest (2007) Physicist Heal Thyself (sung to the tune of "You Gotta Have Heart" by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross |
Carl Bender
Fest (2009) PT Goodbye (sung to the tune of "As Time Goes By", by Hermann Hupfeld) Gravitones: Cliff Will doing a solo gig |
Leonid Grishchuk Fest (2009) Gravitones: Bernie Schutz & Kip Thorne, plus guest artists Stas Babak and Deepak Baskaran
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Martin Walker's 70th Birthday (2013) Proud Martin, or Rollin' on the Isère (sung to the tune of "Proud Mary", by John Fogerty) Gravitones: Bernie Schutz and Clifford Will |
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On becoming "Sir" James Hough (2019) Gravitones: Bernie Schutz plus guest artists
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