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When Capitol was designing the Hollywood Bowl album cover in 1977 they decided to use a pair of concert tickets for the cover. Perhaps not having access to complete original Beatles Hollywood Bowl tickets, or maybe because the original tickets did not have a photo on them, they made up their own imitations using ticket styles from the Shea Stadium concerts as well as 1975 Hollywood Bowl shows by Joan Baez and America. In the process, they incorrectly printed the day as "Sat." (instead of "Sun.") on both tickets.
Shown above are three advance proofs of the tickets. The first two are the ones used for the album cover, but with one final change- Capitol deleted their logo, which was on their earlier designs.
The third ticket makes the story even more interesting, as it shows the correct day of "Sun.". Since the Capitol logo is absent, one can assume that it was made AFTER the other versions - so somewhere along the way the wrong artwork was submitted to the printer. Capitol was immediately informed of the error, as proven by a letter (shown below) sent to them in July of 1977 by a Beatle fan from Holliston, MA., and directed to their art department. They may have ignored the letter, or perhaps considered the matter trivial, as it was never corrected for later vinyl and tape pressings.
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