Elton John, Kanye West among Bonnaroo 2014 headliners

Kanye West performs at Bonnaroo Sunday, June 15, 2008, in Manchester, TN. (photo Armando Sanchez / THE TENNESSEAN)

CLICK HERE FOR A GALLERY OF BONNAROO 2014 PERFORMERS. Here, Kanye West performs at Bonnaroo Sunday, June 15, 2008, in Manchester, TN. (photo Armando Sanchez / THE TENNESSEAN)

It’s true, it’s true. Another knight is headlining Bonnaroo.

Sir Elton John — the madman across the water — will bring his sequined-frock and ruby-shoed self to Manchester, Tenn., along with the ever-controversial Kanye West, Nashville’s own Music City Ambassador Jack White and Motown soul man Lionel Richie to play the 2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

More than 125 performers for this year’s festival, which takes place June 12-15 in Manchester, were revealed on Wednesday night via live video stream on YouTube.

Click to see a gallery of images from Elton John's concert at Bridgestone Arena on April 5, 2013 (photo: Dipti Vaidya/The Tennessean)

The entertainment, as always, is eclectic with everyone from Skrillex to Vampire Weekend and Ms. Lauryn Hill to The Flaming Lips.

John, who will close out Bonnaroo 2014 with a Sunday-night show, has performed in Nashville several times over the last few years. But the Bonnaroo appearance will be his first — and it marks his first-ever U.S. music festival show. It comes a year after another knighted Brit, the prestigious Sir Paul McCartney, headlined the four-day festival.

John most recently played Bridgestone Arena last April in advance of the September 2013 release of “The Diving Board,” a T Bone Burnett production and John’s first solo album in seven years.

“Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves,” said Jonathan Mayers, co-founder of Superfly Presents, which plans and produces Bonnaroo. “And the idea of having some of our heroes and our legends play on The Farm — it’s just really special.”

Joining John in the headliner spot is the headline-grabbing, hip-hop performer West.

This is sure to stir up some angst among the Bonnaroo faithful, who likely have yet to forget West’s last appearance in Manchester.

In 2008, the typically chill, hippie-centric Bonnaroo crowd went slightly senseless when West’s one-man show took nearly two hours to set up following the Pearl Jam set that preceded him.

He didn’t hit the stage until 4:30 a.m. for what was supposed to be a “Glow in the Dark” show. It was cut short by the dawn.

“Kanye” became almost a bad word in the Bonnaroo community, making this perhaps a controversial return for the man who is currently on the road wrapping the North American leg of his 2013 “Yeezus” tour, which backs the Def Jam release of the album of the same name and came to Nashville in November.

Bonnaroo represents open mindedness, Mayers said, and the Bonnaroo crew “all felt good about bringing him back.”

West “brings excitement and sometimes the unexpected,” Mayers said. “I think it’s going to be an amazing show.”

If West riles the crowd up, than Richie can usher in the calm. The Motown icon is in the midst of “All the Hits All Night Long Tour” where he’s been performing with special guest CeeLo Green (who, by the way, announced Wednesday on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” that he will not be returning on a judge on “The Voice.”)

Mayers said Richie is one of his “all-time favorites,” who he has been trying to get to Bonnaroo for years. With Richie, he said, “it’s a total dance party.”

Jack White performing at the Ryman Auditorium on May 15, 2012 (photo: Dipti Vaidya/The Tennessean)

And no Bonnaroo would be complete without a local flavor. Music City’s White — the Third Man Records’ honcho on whom Nashville Mayor Karl Dean bestowed the first Music City Ambassador Award in 2011 — has nabbed a headliner spot of his own.

And the diverse mix found in this year’s headliners extends deeper into the Bonnaroo lineup as new acts and notables provide the festival’s varied entertainment array.

With first-time Grammy-winning alternative rock band Vampire Weekend, the banjo- and guitar-wielding The Avett Brothers, France’s Phoenix and a SuperJam with electronic epiphany Skrillex and friends, there is something for everyone.

Indie quartet Arctic Monkeys, the group who just triumphed over boy band One Direction to take the best group accolade at the United Kingdom’s Brit Awards, will be there.

As will Frank Ocean, Cake, Amos Lee and Ice Cube.

“It’s a sound clash of all these different genres coming together,” Mayers said, “and that’s what makes Bonarroo unique.”

THE COMPLETE 2014 BONNAROO LINEUP

Elton John

Kanye West

Jack White

Lionel Richie

Vampire Weekend

The Avett Brothers

Phoenix

Skrillex

Arctic Monkeys