Elton John walks into Vancouver record store, asks for gangster rap

Store clerks ask, "May I help you, sir?" all the time but it's not every day that they get to ask, "May I help you, Sir Elton John?"

That's what happened in downtown Vancouver on Thursday when John strolled into a record shop and dropped a couple hundred dollars on vinyl.

"I came in from the back and there was Elton John standing there with his two bodyguards, digging through records," said Beat Street Records Manager Lindsay Tomchyshen.

The bodyguards weren't the type of guys that get mistaken for tiny dancers.

"They were big guys," Tomchyshen said.

John signed a copy of his 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road before he left the store. (Beat Street Records)

So, what did John buy?

"He asked my boss if we had any Tech N9ne, like, the gangster rapper and I was not expecting that," Tomchyshen laughed.

Unfortunately, Beatstreet Records was sold out of Tech N9ne so John settled for a stack of albums from the 1980s British pop band Scritti Politti instead.

Tomchyshen said John was polite, posed for some pictures and signed a copy of GoodbyeYellow Brick Road.

Then he was gone, kind of like a candle in the wind.

John plays two shows in Victoria this weekend.

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Elton John walks into Vancouver record store, asks for gangster rap