Former president BILLY CLINTON wasn't very inconspicuous when he checked out KELLY CLARKSON.  From behind, of course.  

 

 

AL ROKER got way too jazzed to get a handshake from VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN.  Did he keep his shorts clean? 

Here's video of BEYONCE singing the National Anthem . . .

Here's KELLY CLARKSON singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee"





And JAMES TAYLOR sang "America the Beautiful".

 

Like ARETHA FRANKLIN before her, KATY PERRY wore a giant hat to an Obama inauguration.  (See the pic.  And yes, she's holding that little bow up to it to remind us of Aretha's epic lid from four years ago.)  (People)