"When You Were Mine" is a song written and released by Prince on his 1980 album, Dirty Mind.
Prince said he was inspired to write the rock song while listening to John Lennon.
The track includes a Farfisa-inspired organ sound played on an Oberheim OB-X.
Credits from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud[7][8] In 1983, Mitch Ryder released a version of the song on the John Mellencamp-produced album Never Kick a Sleeping Dog.
Cyndi Lauper's mid-tempo ballad cover version of "When You Were Mine" is also synthesizer-based for her 1983 debut album, She's So Unusual.