Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (born May 27, 1966) is an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the bands Jellyfish, the Moog Cookbook, Imperial Drag, and The Lickerish Quartet.

[11] In August 1989, a year after Atlantic Records released Beatnik Beatch's eponymous debut album,[11] Manning and Sturmer left the group to continue songwriting with one another and formed the band Jellyfish.

[10] By 1994, Manning and Sturmer were drifting apart musically,[13] and in May, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Jellyfish had disintegrated due to "creative differences".

[14] Afterward, Manning formed the short-lived glam outfit Imperial Drag with ex-Jellyfish guitarist Eric Dover.

[10] Manning formed the Moog Cookbook with sound engineer Brian Kehew shortly after the demise of Jellyfish.

"[17] On stage and in their promotional materials, the band donned space-suit disguises that were similar to outfits worn by another emerging electronic duo, Daft Punk.

"[16] Music journalist Brian Chidester commented that the band "yielded solid overseas sales amidst the retro-obsessed landscape of Pulp Fiction, the Swing revival and thrift shop mania.

The duo even ... found a small domestic audience attuned to similar electronic psych-pop coming out of Europe by bands like Stereolab, Mouse on Mars and the High Llamas.

"[16] In 2017, Manning reached out to his former Jellyfish bandmates Tim Smith and Eric Dover to form another group, The Lickerish Quartet.

[26] Beatnik Beatch Jellyfish Imperial Drag The Moog Cookbook Oxbow TV Eyes The Lickerish Quartet Appearances Bibliography