pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/universal-music-uses-star-power-merger-hearing-113357032--finance.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TSPUhIKBYK9LQhyKYdebbQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-06-21T214900Z_3_CBRE85K0W4T00_RTROPTP_2_INDUSTRY-US-EMI-UNIVERSAL-ANTITRUST.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man enters EMI offices in west London" align="left" title="A man enters EMI offices in west London" border="0" //aWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Universal Music Group brought out big-name allies as it made its case on Thursday before U.S. lawmakers for its much-criticized deal to buy a chunk of rival EMI. Irving Azoff, the executive chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, which faced its own regulatory rough ride in its controversial merger with Ticketmaster in 2010, told a congressional hearing that increased competition in digital music will make the mega-music merger less worrisome. .../pbr clear="all"/
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