The week in music - in pictures

# Beyoncé

# Eurovision

# Lady Gaga

# Les Paul

# Limp Bizkit

# Madonna

# Pop and rock

# Slayer

Check out Madonna in Tel Aviv at the start of her world tour, plus Eurovision action and more
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the week in music: Madonna performs on the first night of her MDNA tour in Tel Aviv
Madonna performs on the first night of her MDNA world tour in Tel Aviv on 31 May Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
Week in music: A Les Paul recording mixing console
A Les Paul recording mixing console with an estimated auction value of between $40,000 and $60,000 on display at an auction of Les Paul's estate, including guitars, music equipment and personal effects at Julien's Auctions in Los Angeles on 29 May
Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Action images
Week in music: Esperanza Spalding performs at KOKO in London on 28 May
Esperanza Spalding performs at Koko in London on 28 May Photograph: Andy Sheppard/WireImage
Week in music: Shirley Manson of Garbage onstage at a NYLON Magazine launch party
Garbage's Shirley Manson on stage at a Nylon Magazine launch party in West Hollywood on 30 May Photograph: Amanda Edwards/WireImage
Week in music: Beyonce performs in Atlantic City, New Jersey on 25 May
Beyoncé performs in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on 25 May
Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Action images
Week in music: Lady Gaga supporters perform one of her dance routines at a shopping centre
Lady Gaga supporters perform one of her dance routines at a shopping centre in Jakarta on 27 May. Dozens of her fans, also known as little monsters, staged a flash mob in her support after learning that her concert had been cancelled following protests by hardline Islamic groups Photograph: Adi Weda/EPA
Week in music: Axl Rose and Frank Ferrer of Guns N' Roses perform in Manchester
Axl Rose and Frank Ferrer of Guns N' Roses perform in Manchester, England, on 29 May
Photograph: Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage Photograph: Shirlaine Forrest/Action images
Week in music: Loreen of Sweden the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
Loreen, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, with members of the victorious Swedish team in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26 May Photograph: Rolf Klatt/WireImage
Week in music: 'Moonshadow' musical, Sydney, Australia - 30 May 2012
Yusuf Islam on set of his new musical Moonshadow. The musical has been 10 years in the making and features songs that he produced as Cat Stevens Photograph: Newspix/Rex Features
Week in music: Gary Holt of Slayer performs at ATP Festival in London on 25 May
Slayer's Gary Holt performs at the ATP festival in London on 25 May Photograph: Gary Wolstenholme/Getty Images
Week in music: Matt Pike of Sleep performs at the ATP Festival in London
Sleep's Matt Pike performs at the ATP festival in London on 25 May Photograph: Gary Wolstenholme/Getty Images
Week in music: Sky Blu of LMFAO performs in Illinois, US on 26 May
SkyBlu of LMFAO on stage in Illinois on 26 May Photograph: Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images
Week in music: The lead singer of Limp Bizkit Rock in Rio Lisboa
Lead singer of Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst is held back from a cheering crowd at the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon on 26 May Photograph: Jose Sena Goulao/EPA
Week in music: Will Hunt of Evanescence performs at the Rock in Rio Music Festival
Will Hunt of Evanescence performs at the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon on 25 May Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters
the week in music: Fans watch Franz Ferdinand at Primavera Sound Festival 201
Fans watch Franz Ferdinand at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on 31 May Photograph: Jordi Vidal/Getty Images

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