capitalizing the in the beatles why are you revising beatles related articles in order to capitalize the initial t in the beatles proper literary style would have the group's name spelled as the beatles not the beatles all recognized authorities who have published books on the beatles including mark lewisohn bob spitz nicholas schaffner hunter davies allan kozinn and bruce spizer do not capitalize the t in the unless it is the first word in a sentence if we want to readers to take our articles on the beatles seriously we need to follow the proper rules of style don't you agree mcb