Speaking to Billboard, the Live Nation executive chairman - who attended the Senate's antitrust committee hearing in support of the Universal/EMI merger alongside Lucian Grainge and Roger Faxon - hit out at opposition arguments presented by Warner's Edgar Bronfman Jr and Beggars' Martin Mills.

Billboard says that Azoff feels he didn't get chance to respond properly during the hearing so, in an interview with the publication, he does just that.

He disputed Martin Mills' argument when the Beggars boss ...