Taken by Force is the fifth studio album by German band Scorpions, released by RCA Records in 1977.

Roth left the band in 1978 following the end of the album's tour, and was at first replaced by Michael Schenker and later by Matthias Jabs.

The lyrics to "We'll Burn the Sky" were initially a poem written by Monika Dannemann, the last girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix [citation needed], as a tribute to him after he died.

When you're fifteen you don't fully understand life, but these guys then have to shoot other people simply because someone tells them to do it for their country.

Maybe every once in a while a country may need to defend itself, I understand that, but in general if you consider that there are over a hundred wars raging in the present day on this planet alone then it's just sheer lunacy and always the tool of the Dark Side.