Alice Brock, who has died aged 83, was the owner of a restaurant immortalised by Arlo Guthrie in his 1967 mock-heroic ballad Alice’s Restaurant (or to give it its full title Alice’s Restaurant Massacree),

The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83.

In the early 1960s, Arlo Guthrie, the son of folk musician Woody Guthrie, met a woman named Alice who would change his life forever. He was attending the Stockbridge School in Massachusetts and became friends with the librarian there,

Alice Brock was a pioneer in Berkshire County's restaurant scene, an artist, and the title character in Arlo Guthrie's biggest hit. But friends say her larger-than-life personality, wise counsel and

Photo via Rising Son Records' Facebook page Arlo Guthrie has posted a remembrance for his friend Alice Brock, whose namesake restaurant inspired the title

Alice was a lifelong friend,” said folksinger Arlo Guthrie of Ms. Brock, a former restaurateur who prepared the 1965 Thanksgiving dinner that was the jumping off point for his famous song "Alice's Restaurant.