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Maureen Wilson was born in the East India on November 20th, 1948, but was raised in England. She has one sister and one brother.
Robert was married to Maureen Wilson on November 9, 1968 after having known each other for two years (they met in 1966, at a Georgie Fame concert). They had three children: Carmen Jane, born 21 October 1968; Karak, circa 1971; and Logan Romero, born January 21 1979. Robert was present for the birth of all 3 of their children.
In an interview by Charles Shaar Murray printed in NME magazine on 23/06/1973 Robert Plant mentions Maureen saying:
"I don't like taking Maureen [on the road] (...) really, as much as I love her. When you are on the road, you are nomads, you know. There was an album called Rock n' Roll Gypsies and that's it - you've gotta travel on.
I think I've got one of the finest ladies in the world and it wouldn't do her any good because she's not up there on that stage. So she'd get tired and want to know why we weren't doing this and that, and the very fact that I've just woken up and it's three o'clock in the afternoon and the shops shut at six, and there's no shopping to be done today and all that sort of thing... It isn't practical."
The day after the last Earls Court date, on March 26th 1975, Robert Plant, Maureen, and their two children set out on a trip to Marrakech, Morocco. Page, Martin and their daughter, Scarlet, joined the Plants in June. The two families travelled through July and wound up on the Greek island of Rhodes. On August 3rd, Page left to check on some property in Sicily. The next day, Maureen Plant was driving her family and Scarlet Page in a rented car down a narrow road on the island when she lost control. The car hit a tree hard. Robert thought his wife was dead. His children were badly injured, though Scarlet was unhurt. Robert's ankle was severely broken. Martin had been following in the car behind. She called Richard Cole back in London: The medical care on the island might not be enough for Maureen, who had lost a lot of blood and might die. Cole arranged to get Robert and his family back to England, where Maureen would remain in the hospital for weeks; Robert, however, had to leave immediately, due to tax laws.
Doctors told Plant he would not be able to walk for months—in fact, they thought he might never walk again unaided. The group would not be able to tour for a year or more, if ever. Plant and Page sequestered themselves in Malibu and began writing material that was leaner and more hard-hitting. In November, Led Zeppelin travelled to Munich and recorded Presence. Released in April 1976, Presence conveyed the sense of a band up against bad odds, fighting back. "Achilles Last Stand" was about the car accident.
In an interview for People Magazine (Dec. 20, 1976 Vol. 6 No. 25) it's said that 'when When he retreats home, it's to his Eurasian wife of eight years, Maureen, 28, daughter Carmen, 8, and son Karac, 5. The Plants live in an 800-year-old stone house on 290 rolling acres. "Plunk," Robert exults, "on the side of a conical Welsh mountain tucked away like in the fold of a good skirt—where we should all be. No, no, no. I didn't mean that..."
All four Zep members are family men, millionaires, country squires (Plant also has a home near Birmingham, as does Bonham; Page and Jones are in Sussex), with eight kids among them. "It's much easier to live that settled life," Plant has discovered, "when you know there's the other too. They augment each other. I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. Kids are very stabilizing," he philosophizes.
An endangered species, the English rock-star-resident of the U.K., Plant won't tax-exile his family, he says, because "wealth isn't something you hide away for in some remote place—just to maintain figures. Life's got to be lived the best way possible." For Robert that's roaming his land with his family underfoot; to "get involved with my 300 sheep and one pig—her name is Madam" and jot down "my meanderings about life which might give me a lyrical inkling." He also used to play soccer with a village team, until he broke his foot and ankle in an auto accident during a family excursion in Greece 16 months ago.'
Sadly, son Karak died of a repiratory ailment on July 26, 1977. He was six.
Robert and Maureen divorced in 1982, but they still remain friends.
Maureen dated Ian Hatton, guitarist for Bonham, and current producer, on or around 1991.
*Many thanks to Robi and Natasha Fiberesima for some of the Maureen pictures!*
Family pictures of Robert, Maureen and daughter Carmen Jane relaxing in their farm at Kidderminster, on October 1969, by Michael Randolph.
Below: Robert and Maureen on Cleveland, October 24th 1969.
Robert and Maureen in 1970, many thanks to Natasha.
Right: Robert and Maureen on 1970.
Left: Lovely photo of Maureen and Robert circa 1971.
Maureen acompanied her husband when Led Zeppelin toured in Hawaii, September 1971.
Robert Plant was captured relaxing on his Welsh country farm with his wife Maureen, and children Karac and Carmen in the film 'The Song Remains the same'. The sequences were filmed in 1973, but the film was released three years later, on 1976. [This screen captures were taken by myself, if you want to use any, please e-mail me, thanks]
Below: Robert and Maureen attending a concert of The Band in Wembley, September 1974.
Right: Maureen with Karac and Robert with Carmen Jane, Wales 1976.
Robert and Maureen ca. 1976, probably post-accident. Many thanks to Amy.
Left: Robert and Maureen at "The Song Reimans the Same" premiere, London 1976.
Right: Early summer of 1977, family picture not long before Karac's tragic death
Below: Maureen and Carmen with Robert at the backstage of Knewborth concert, August 1979.
Maureen and Robert backstage during a performance, late 1970s.
August 28th 2008 - Maureen and Robert, still friends, in Ibiza (Spain). Many thanks to Natasha!
Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant celebrated utterly quiet 60th birthday (August 20th) together with his family nowhere else but in Ibiza. They took the dinner on a beach restaurant admiring the sun set.
The rock star took his time to talk to the photographers, and he declared that despite his age of 60, he is up for "Best Male" at the GQ awards and "Best Band" for the Mercury awards.
Robert also told that he had with him his five grandchildren, and that the other members of Led Zeppelin had work to do in the recording studio.
The woman on Robert's right-hand side is Carmen. The girl on his left is Carmen & Charlie's daughter Sunny. The little boy with blondish curly hair is Carmen's son, and the woman on the far end of the picture with the red hair is Maureen.
Many thanks to Amy. More info and pics: http://www.vipflux.com/robert-plant/former-led-zeppelin-frontman-celebrates-his-60th-birthday-in-ibi.html
"Thank You" is a song written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page that was released by Led Zeppelin on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II. It signaled a deeper involvement in songwriting by singer Robert Plant, being the first Led Zeppelin song that he wrote all the lyrics for. The song is for Maureen.
"THANK YOU"
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look... see.
And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness....I'm glad.
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
