Plant married Maureen Wilson on Nov. 9, 1968, the same day LED ZEPPELIN made their official debut at the Roundhouse in London, after performing a few months under the YARDBIRDS name. Seven years later, the Plants and their children were involved in a car crash while vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes. The singer broke an ankle and an elbow, and his recovery, which included spending time in a wheelchair, affected the band's plans to tour behind Physical Graffiti.

Two years later, Plant was on the road in the U.S. in support of ZEPPELIN's 1976 album Presence when he received a call that his five-year-old son, Karac, had suddenly died of a stomach virus.

"I lost my boy," he reflected in 2007. "I didn't want to be in Led Zeppelin. I wanted to be with my family. ... I stopped taking everything on the same day. The most important thing to me is my family and when I got off my face, I found it difficult to be all things to the people that meant a lot to me."

 

Robert and Maureen Plant divorced in 1983.