Procol Harum

[V]

Robiaty, shto-to na menia vopros pro Genesis navel vospominaniya. A shto oznachaet Procol Harum.
Byla u menia takaya liubimaya gruppa, i ya vsegda was sort of wondering what the hell it meant.
Obiter Dictum, ob'yasnivshiy mne pro SPQR, ne pomozhete li, kollega?
Cheers

[Vediki]

Out of the swirling ocean of psychedelia, which included Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody to Love' (a Top Ten hit in May) and The Doors' 'Light My Fire' (June's #1 hit) there had arisen a dark and mighty leviathan with a strange and magical name: PROCOL HARUM. The name, misspelled from the Latin, translates as 'Beyond These Things.' The original owner of that name was somebody's cat. And like a cat, fame nuzzled up warmly and then abruptly walked away. Inscrutably, critics trashed the golden band's follow-up single 'Homburg' for either being, or not being 'A Whiter Shade of Pale.' Management and personnel problems added to the bad luck. Other bands made a big splash and didn't repeat. Jefferson Airplane, to cite one example, disappeared from the charts completely after 1967's 'Somebody to Love' and 'White Rabbit.' But 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' was THE hit of 1967 and it burdened the band with a legend they couldn't live up to.

Взято здесь: http://www.procolharum.com/Procolhist.htm

[Tollmuch]

Здесь усе написано - http://www.procolharum.com/doglatin.htm

[V]

Thanks guys.
But maybe some Latin pundit can explain what the Latin original was that was then corrupted and misspelt by PH?
Obiter,a?

[AlexZ]

В Google на Procul Harum (!?) 9,530 вхождений...
А вот Latin Dictionary (http://www.math.ubc.ca/people/faculty/cass/frivs/latin/latin-dict-full.html#H):
-- procul : far, at, to, from a distance.
-- harum : (fem. pl. gen.) The city wall had four OF THESE (gates).