The truth of the song is stretched out, but it still happened—even if Arlo Guthrie wrote him and Alice (remember, it’s a song about Alice) and Robbins into a predicament no one else lived through.

Arlo Guthrie has posted a remembrance for his friend Alice Brock, whose namesake restaurant inspired the title of his most famous song, the 1967 ditty “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” ...

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 ...