30 Days in the Hole

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"30 Days in the Hole"
Single by Humble Pie
from the album Smokin'
B-side	"Sweet Peace and Time" "C'mon Everybody"
Released	September 1972 (1972-09)
Recorded	February 1972 at Olympic Studios, London
Genre	Hard rock blues rock
Length	3:58
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Steve Marriott
Producer(s)	Humble Pie
Humble Pie singles chronology
"Hot 'n' Nasty" (1972) "30 Days in the Hole" (1972) "Black Coffee" (1973)
Audio
"30 Days in the Hole" on YouTube

"30 Days in the Hole" is a song by English rock band Humble Pie. Released in late 1972, it was composed by the band's guitarist/singer Steve Marriott for the group's fifth album Smokin' (1972). The song received minor airplay at the time but failed to chart. However, it gained a following on album oriented rock (AOR) and classic rock radio formats and consequently it remains one of Humble Pie's best known songs.

The B-side on its US release was "Sweet Peace and Time", while everywhere else the B-side featured "C'mon Everybody" and "Road Runner".

The song, a Steve Marriott composition, bemoans being arrested for possession of small quantities of illegal drugs, including cocaine; Durban poison, a potent strain of marijuana; and Red Lebanese and Black Nepalese, two types of hashish. "New Castle Brown" is often mistaken as a reference to Newcastle Brown Ale but actually refers to heroin also known as "Brown" or "Smack".

Pie guitarist Clem Clempson has said it is one of the tracks he would most like his career to be remembered by.^[1] But the predominant group personality shown through by the song is Marriott's; so much so that when years later Clempson was asked about efforts to reform the group without Marriott, he simply declaimed, "It's a waste of time."^[1]