[2] He portrayed music groups, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Badfinger, Deep Purple, Humble Pie and Grand Funk Railroad.

He also made individual portraits of musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens, Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, The Who drummer Keith Moon and The Four Seasons singer Frankie Valli.

[citation needed] On September 1, 1967, Sherbell traveled to the Netherlands with Brian Jones and photographer Michael Cooper to attend a performance by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Sherbell traveled extensively and reported on various countries, including Grenada, Haiti, Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova, Libya, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.

[2] From 1991 to 1993, Sherbell lived in Russia and wrote a coffee table book titled Soviets: Pictures from the End of the USSR, which was published by Yale University Press in 2001.