Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

‘Alice’s Restaurant’ namesake

NEW YORK -- Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's deadpan Thanksgiving standard, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," has died at age 83. Her death was announced ...
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Alice's Restaurant Was Real — Here's What It's Like Today

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The rambling monologue of "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" (often simply called "Alice's Restaurant") is one of the cultural mysteries of ...
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The Real Alice Who Inspired Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ Dead at 83

Alice Brock, the woman who was the real life inspiration for the iconic Arlo Guthrie song “Alice’s Restaurant,” has died, Guthrie announced on social media on Friday. She was 83. “We worked together ...
Yahoo

Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic "Alice’s Restaurant Massacree," is photographed in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 2008. Alice Brock, whose ...
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Alice Brock from Thanksgiving tune ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ dead at 83

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (WPRI) — Alice May Brock, the woman who inspired Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. She was 83 years old. Guthrie announced Brock’s passing on ...
Berkshire Eagle

She's most known as namesake of 'Alice's Restaurant,' but friends remember Alice Brock for her talent and her spirit

Alice Brock’s impact — in the Berkshires and beyond — is more than the epic Arlo Guthrie folk song that bears her name. Brock, who died Thursday in Provincetown at the age of 83, was a pioneer in ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ Dead at 83

Alice Brock, the woman who gave Arlo Guthrie’s classic Thanksgiving tune “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” its name, has died at the age of 83. It was Thanksgiving 1965 when Guthrie, then just ...
NPR

Remembering the woman behind the Arlo Guthrie song 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree'

Alice Brock, whose restaurant in western Massachusetts inspired Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving song, died last week at the age of 83. ARLO GUTHRIE: (Singing) You can get anything you want at Alice's ...
The Boston Globe

‘Alice’s Restaurant’ — a fun sing-along or a serious antiwar song?

The death of Alice Brock sent me back to the modest collection of high school- and college-era albums that’s still kicking around my basement. Music is such a powerful force, it can take you back in ...
The Boston Globe

Alice Brock, whose restaurant inspired Arlo Guthrie’s classic song, dies at 83

To Alice Brock, the song that immortalized her name and her long-ago Stockbridge restaurant stirred memories of the best parts of the 1960s. And she remained friends with folksinger Arlo Guthrie, who ...
People

Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire Arlo Guthrie's Classic 'Alice's Restaurant,' Dies at 83

Arlo Guthrie's 18-minute long, 1967 folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" was inspired by his 1965 Thanksgiving meal with Alice Brock in Massachusetts Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty ...