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Robert Anthony Plant was born on August 20, 1948 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire and grew up in the town of Kidderminster. By age fifteen, he quit school in favor of music. Robert joined various bands in the Black Country, such as The New Memphis Bluesbreakers, The Black Snake Moan, The Delta Blues Band and The Crawling King Snakes. In 1966, Robert gathered a group together, named Listen, which recorded a few singles for CBS. Plant's next group was The Band Of Joy, with John Bonham. Although they were successful in area gigs, they failed to secure a record contract, and disbanded in spring 1968. Robert teamed up with blues legend Alexis Korner for a couple recording sessions in August 1968, which gigging around the Midlands with a band named Hobbstweedle. One day in late August 1968, Jimmy Page and Peter Grant came to see Robert perform at a teachers training college outside of Birmingham. Robert married Maureen Wilson on November 9, 1968, whom he'd known for the two previous years. They had a total of three children together, a daughter Carmen Jane who was born on November 21, 1968, and two sons Karac, who died in July 1977 of a stomach infection and Logan Romero, who was born on January 21, 1979.
After Led Zeppelin broke up, Robert was seemingly the most unaffected, forming a new band in early 1981 named The Honeydrippers with some local R&B players. They had several low-key performances in the UK in March-June 1981. With Robbie Blunt, Robert prepared material for his first solo album Pictures At Eleven, which was released on June 28, 1982.
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