Alice Brock, the Massachusetts restaurant owner and artist who inspired folk artist Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," died at 83 on Nov. 20 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as Guthrie announced on Facebook.

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

Guthrie’s 1967 antiwar anthem with the refrain “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant” begins with an eventful Thanksgiving hosted by Ms. Brock.

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