The week in music - in pictures

Sir Paul McCartney identifies himself at his daughter Stella McCartney's Paris fashion week show. McCartney will marry Nancy Shevell (pictured beside him) in London on Sunday Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

Rihanna performs in a typically revealing outfit on the opening night of the London leg of her Loud Tour at the O2 Arena Photograph: Neil Lupin/Redferns

Week in music: Commuters stand near loudspeakers

A loudspeaker competition at a fair in Allahabad, India. Playing loud music has traditionally been a part of local fairs in Allahabad, with a reward for the owners of the loudest sound system Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Doris Yeh, bassist for the Taiwanese metal band Cthonic, performs at the House of Blues in Chicago promoting their album Takasago Army Photograph: Maureen Vana/Corbis

The actors of the Partridge Family – David Cassidy, Shirley Jones, Susan Dey, Brian Forster, Suzanne Crough and Danny Bonaduce – pose in 1970. Cassidy has filed a lawsuit against Sony claiming it broke a 1971 contract over the use of his likeness
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Action images

Fans of the Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber lie in a heart shape on the pavement outside his hotel in Mexico City Photograph: Reuters

Musicians and protesters sing John Lennon's Imagine at the Occupy Wall Street protest Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis

Kylie Minogue receives an honorary degree at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, Essex Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

Jessie J performs at the Mobos 2011 in Glasgow. She picked up four gongs amid accusations the Music of Black Origin awards had lost their way Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Lady Gaga is mobbed as she leaves her hotel in London Photograph: Beretta/Sims/Rex Features

Dionne Bromfield performs her late godmother Amy Winehouse's song Love is a Losing Game at the Mobos Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Gwyneth Paltrow performs with the Knights Before and Mark Ronson at a party to launch the Arts Club in Mayfair, central London, hosted by Prince Philip Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

Snoop Dogg has surprised the Welsh farmer Ian Neale with a YouTube video congratulating him on growing the world's largest swede, which has made it into the Guinness World Records at 38kg (6st). "Shout out to my homeboy Ian Neale in Cardiff for breaking the world record for the biggest vegetable," Snoop said, standing in front of a giant image of cannabis plants Photograph: Internet Grab

A well-fed Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses performs at the Rock in Rio festival Photograph: Buda Mendes/STF/LatinContent/Getty Images

Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins peforming at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Corgan is the only member of the original lineup performing with the reformed Pumpkins Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Children listen to a woman performing during the 27th annual medieval festival at Fort Tryon Park in New York Photograph: Ramin Talaie/Corbis

Anna Calvi during her concert at the Astra in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Frank Hoensch/Getty Images

Bert Jansch, the innovative, influential guitarist and founder member of the groundbreaking folk band Pentangle, who died this week

Read the full obituary here Photograph: Sarah Lee

Week in music: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles in the early 1960s. Marv Tarplin (centre, with guitar), who has died aged 70, remained the musical lieutenant of the group's leader, Smokey Robinson, for almost half a century until his retirement in 2008

Read the full obituary here Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who has died aged 56, holding an iPod, which revolutionised the music industry, led to a collapse in CD sales and made Jobs one of the most powerful voices in an industry he loved Photograph: Mark Richards/Corbis

Michael Forever : Michael Forever Tribute Concert

Members of the Jackson family perform at the Michael Forever concert in Cardiff with boyband JLS Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

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