Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks kick off inauguration night festivities
Joe Biden’s inauguration concert, as the first performer in the “Celebrating America” special hosted by Tom Hanks.Accompanied only by a guitar on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — with the lit National Mall and Washington Monument beckoning in front of him — Springsteen, 71, offered a “small prayer” for the country before serenading with his 1999 song “Land of Hope and Dreams.”Hanks — who along with his wife, Rita Wilson, fought the coronavirus earlier last year — talked of witnessing “deep division” and “rancor” across the country in recent years.“Tonight we ponder the United States of America, the practice of our democracy, the foundations of our republic, the integrity of the constitution,” as well as the “dreams we share,” Hanks, 64,