Any favourites ? Here's some of mine...

Scarlet Rivera on Dylan's 'Oh sister'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOnyZ5UClQ

Velvet Underground 'Venus in furs'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c

Best of all though I loved Lucy wilkins solo at the end of 'Out Of The Blue' on the Roxy Music reunion tour - it's like the best orgasm ever in musical form lol...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nnA72_kSkE

Isn't Venus In Furs a viola, rather than a violin?

Out Of The Blue is the first thing that came to mind when I saw your thread title. Although Lucy is great, I can't help but prefer Eddie Jobson's original. Here live in 1974. Stunning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9QpI3wVvek

And the original recording
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XJtRrNad3U

Andrew Bird's pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HOw4ZtT52w

Slade. Coz I Luv You.

The end of "That Golden Rule" by Biffy Clyro.

Darryl Way played some good violin solos (imo) back in the '70s with Curved Air:

Melinda (more or less):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7rHo2Dt4Dw

Vivaldi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cbz9vYJDnk

I thought that Sonja Kristina was (& still is) gorgeous (imo) :love:

Yes.

Also, Psychomodo by Steve Harley and the 'sort of' solo in You Held the World In Your Arms by Idlewild.

A studio version of Curved Air playing Vivaldi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbAHkb4bW5Y

It's hard to beat good fiddle playing right enough

Horslips - King of the Fairies

The end of The Who's Baba O'Riley

Gary Shearston - I Get a Kick Out of You

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIHabvURnpk

Restarting thread:
Crescendo, Are you out there?

Beat that!

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Blur - The Universal
Lou Reed - Street Hassle, Perfect Day
and every VU song with John Cale playing viola

An odd one, but I love the use of violin/strings at the beginning of Fall Down by Will.i.am featuring Miley Cyrus. It's the best part of the song.

Also Jóga by Bjork has a really really beautiful string section in it.

oops........already been posted !

It was Curved Air

Any thread about the use of violins (and various other stringed instruments) in pop/rock surely has to include a mention of the Electric Light Orchestra!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LnPnbhyjGc

Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever by Van Der Graaf Generator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36b-_xPTq8Q

Violinist Jean-Luc Ponty did some excellent work with Frank Zappa - not sure whether it's pop, rock or classical?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvxKj2fhLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJ8SwXSakU

... and many more on YouTube. Ponty recorded an album of Zappa's compositions, very good it is too but it's firmly in the jazz-rock bracket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7xLdKqNc9k

The mighty Turisas!

TURISAS - Stand Up And Fight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q

I'll get me coat

Love them :love:

How about some Korpiklaani too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ