Inside Bruno Mars' opening-night gig at Inglewood's new Intuit Dome

The pop-soul hitmaker played the first of two shows on Thursday night to welcome fans to the Clippers' new $2-billion home.

It likely wasn’t the first time Bruno Mars played his song “Billionaire” in front of an actual billionaire. But as the pop-soul hitmaker sang about wanting to “buy all of the things I never had” not long into his concert Thursday night at Inglewood’s new Intuit Dome, you couldn’t help but scope out Steve Ballmer, who’d used his vast wealth to do just that by building a long-awaited home for his beloved Clippers basketball team.

He wore a silky red bowling shirt and a neatly trimmed mustache with heavy ’70s-playboy vibes; he led the crack eight-piece band he calls the Hooligans like a suave combination of James Brown, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

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